Literary Vocab terms Vol.5

You are reading a story, and you stop to look more closely at how the character’s feelings change. What are you doing?

• Inferring

• Clarifying

• Analyzing

• Predicting

You read: “Since it rained all night, the soccer game was canceled.” What is the cause?

• The soccer game

• It rained all night

• The team

• The field was wet

Your friend doesn’t understand a sentence in the book. You stop and explain it in a simpler way. What did you do?

• Predict

• Clarify

• Analyze

• Summarize

“The girl’s shoes were soaked and her hair was dripping. She must have been walking in the rain.” What did the reader do?

• Make a prediction

• Infer

• Find the main idea

• Clarify

What is the effect of forgetting your lunch?

• You are full

• You miss the bus

• You are hungry

• You finish your homework

• To examine something closely by breaking it into parts.

• Analyze
• Summarize
• Evaluate
• Ignore

To make a guess based on clues and what you already know.

• Deduction
• Conclusion
• Assumption
• Infer

The reason something happens.

• Effect
• Result
• Outcome
• Cause

What happens as a result.

• The situation improves immediately.
• Nothing changes at all.
• Effect

• Cause

How a text is organized (like sequence or compare and contrast).

• Text Analysis

• Text structure

• Text homework

• Effect