What is the main idea of a passage?

Which of the below is an example of personification?

Which of the below is an example of a simile?

The correct order of plot stages is...

She is sunshine that brightens my day

David is struggling with a decision. He has to decide if he wants to go to a technical school or a community college.  What type of conflict is this?

Robert's girlfriend has just broken up with him because someone told her that he was seeing her best friend.  What type of conflict is this?

Facts written about someone's life written by someone else.

Facts written by someone about his/her own life

Bronze Star by Irwin Keene   World War II has been hard for Mama Conner. Her husband and three sons have been away at war and Mama Conner was left to keep the house together, raise money, and provide for Baby Maple. The mood in the town darkens suddenly when her neighbor Betsy loses one of her loved ones in battle. At Mama Conner's ladies club, several upstanding ladies of the town are on edge after hearing a garbled news report announcing that a man from their town was lost in battle, but as the man's name went unheard, the women are left to speculate as to whom will be the most affected. 

 Newton's Law by Morton Mallon   After a mostly unsuccessful life of studying and practicing the nano-transportation sciences, Professor Melton stumbles upon a major breakthrough on April 20^th, 2042: he discovers a way to transport particles at light-speed across fixed distances, thereby allowing him to teleport from one location to another. But Professor Melton soon discovers that there is no such thing as a free lunch. He learns that the body ages relative to the distance travelled, not just the time, in effect causing a teleporting body to age very rapidly. Can Melton solve this problem before his time is up? 

The Hard Way Out by Terry Vaughn  
In this novel, Brian struggles with living at his Aunt's house and sharing a room with his cousin while dealing with the grief of having lost both of his parents in a tragic car accident. Basketball is his only escape, but after geting benched for low progress report grades, Brian' world shatters. Does he have it in him to turn around his grades? Will Brian come to peace with his emotions? Can anyone help him?

Who is the narrator? 

What is the literary device that is used when the author wants to remind the reader of a prior event? 

What is the literary element that means "giving a hint that something is going to happen?"

What is the dictionary or literal meaning of a word? 

What is the connection or implied meaning of a word? 

What is the order of events in a story? 

Choose the correct vocabulary word-  helps the reader learn about other important ideas that go along with the topic or main idea of a passage.

Usually found at the end of a passage or the back of the book to help the reader understand the meaning of important words.

Found throughout the passage at the bottom of the text -  Help the reader by citing references or giving additional information about a word in the text.

Found through out the reading passage- Drawings or sketches used to help the reader visualize something

Found under pictures, diagrams, charts or photographs to help the reader better understand the picture of diagram.

Found at the back of the book and provides the reader with an alphabetical listing of the ideas in the book and provides the page # to read about the topic

Photos or pictures used to help the reader visualize something in the  passage

Helps the readers see where the places in the passage are in relation to geographic regions of the world

Added to help provide more information about photographs, illustrations, or diagrams

Often found at the end of the text as a summary of the person's life events- helps the reader see dates and events in chronological order

A penny for your thoughts? If it’s a 1943 copper penny, it could be worth as much as fifty thousand dollars. In 1943, most pennies were made out of steel since copper was needed for World War II, so the 1943 copper penny is ultra-rare. Another rarity is the 1955 double die penny. These pennies were mistakenly double stamped, so they have overlapping dates and letters. If it’s uncirculated, it’d easily fetch $25,000 at an auction. Now that’s a pretty penny. 

Before you put on that Angry Birds costume and exhaust yourself roving from door to door pandering for candy, take a minute to reflect on the tradition in which you are taking part. Halloween is believed to have come from an ancient Celtic festival dating back some 2,000 years. November 1st was the Celtic New Year and marked the end of summer to the Celts, so they celebrated on its eve by wearing costumes made of animal skins and dancing around bon fires. Over the next two millennia, this primitive celebration grew to be candy fueled costume ball that we know today. 

When one hears the term "reality" applied to a television show, one might expect that the events portrayed occurred naturally or, at the least, were not scripted, but this is not always the case.  Many reality shows occur in unreal environments, like rented mansions occupied by film crews.  Such living environments do not reflect what most people understand to be "reality."  Worse, there have been accusations that events not captured on film were later restaged by producers.  Worse still, some involved in the production of "reality" television claim that the participants were urged to act out story lines premeditated by producers.  With such accusations floating around, it's no wonder many people take reality TV to be about as real as the sitcom.  

A comparison of two unlike things using the words 'like' or 'as' is called

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things is 

The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in the series of words is called

A group of words whose collective meaning is very different from their literal meaning (like it is raining cats and dogs)

a reference to a person, place or event from history, literature, sports or the arts is called

Words that imitate sounds

An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

This is a picture of an exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

A comparison of two unlike things by saying one is like the other

This is a picture of the cloud having human qualities...remember the cloud isn't human. What word is this?

This is a picture of a comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as

Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally; commonly known as figures of speech is called