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Reading Strategies & Literary Devices

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a symbol?

a)

Another word for a theme

b)

Words that create an image in our mind

c)

three things that represents or stands for something else

d)

a thing that represents or stands for something else

2.

What is Inferring?

a)

Bringing together: what is written in the text [evidence - quotes] What is already known by you as the reader


Inferring helps you to build meaning about the texts

b)

Bringing together: what is not written in the text


What is already known by you as the reader


Inferring helps you to build meaning about the texts

c)

What is already known by you as the reader

d)

Bringing together: what is written in the text [evidence - quotes]


Inferring helps you to predict what will happen

3.

What is a theme?

a)

A theme essentially means the literary devices the story uses.


There is often more than one literary device used in a story.

b)

A theme essentially means the symbol that the story communicates.


There is often three themes that run through a story.

c)

A theme essentially means the idea or ‘message’ that the story communicates.


There is often more than one idea or theme that runs through a story.

d)

A theme essentially means the language used by the author

4.

What is Imagery?

a)

Use of particular words that create visual representation of ideas in our minds

b)

Use of three words that create visual representation of ideas in our minds

c)

Use of the words 'like' and 'as' to create visual representation of ideas in our minds

d)

Use of particular words that create meaning about the text

5.

What is Predicting?

a)

Using your new knowledge to help come up with an idea about what might come next in the text

Using evidence from other texts to see if your ideas turn out

b)

Using your new knowledge to help come up with an idea about what might come next in the text

Your prior knowledge might come from:

  1. Your friend's life
  2. From other texts you have read
c)

Using your prior knowledge to help come up with an idea about what might come next in the text

Using evidence from the text to see if your ideas turn out

Your prior knowledge might come from:

  1. Your own life What you know about the world
  2. From other texts you have read
d)

Using your new knowledge to help come up with an idea about what might come next in the text

Using evidence from other texts to see if your ideas turn out

Your prior knowledge might come from:

  1. Your own life
  2. What you know about the world
  3. From other texts you have read this week
6.

What does the acronym P.I.T.S.Ta.V.Q stand for?

a)

Planning, Inferring, Text structure, Summarising, Think-aloud, Visualising, Questioning

b)

Predicting, Inferring, Text structure, Summarising, Think-aloud, Visualising, Questioning

c)

Predicting, Inferring, Text structure, Summarising, Think-aloud, Visualising, Quoting

d)

Predicting, Inferring, Text structure, Sentence structure, Think-aloud, Visualising, Questioning

7.

What literary device am I?


“dragged behind like a ball on a chain”

a)

Simile

b)

Personification

c)

Symbol

d)

Imagery

8.

What is Foreshadowing?

a)

an advance hint of what theme will be used in the story

b)

an advance hint of what symbol the author will use in the story.

c)

an advance hint of who the main character is in the story.

d)

an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.

9.

What is a protagonist? [pro-tag-on-ist]

a)

The lead character in a text

b)

A character that supports the main character in a text

c)

A character who is against the main character

d)

Another word for theme

10.

What is Questioning?

a)

Asking questions of the text after you read

b)

Asking questions of the text as you read


Questions you have about the text may:

  1. Come before you read
  2. During reading
  3. After reading
c)

Asking questions of the text before you read

d)

Only asking questions of the text during reading

11.

What is a contention?

a)

Your opinion towards the character

b)

Your opinion towards the prompt

c)

Another word for argument

d)

Another word for textual evidence

12.

What does connotation mean?

a)

The main theme used by the author

b)

The central message in a text

c)

An idea or feeling a word creates in addition to its literal meaning.

d)

An idea or feeling three words create in addition to its literal meaning.

13.

What does onomatopoeia [on-o-mat-o-pee-a] mean?

a)

A word that that means the opposite.


For example:


Sizzle, tweet, buzz

b)

Another word for imagery

c)

Another word for a simile

d)

A word that that sounds like how it is written.


For example:


Sizzle, tweet, buzz

14.

Which sentence is correct?

a)

There were many problems with the house. Firstly it did not have electricity.

b)

There were many problems with there house. Firstly it did not have electricity.

c)

there were many problems with the house. firstly it did not have electricity.

d)

Their were many problems with the house. firstly it did not have electricity.

15.

Which sentence is correct?

a)

mr Rowe's snacks are some of the best I have ever tasted.

b)

Mr Rowes snacks are some of the best I have ever tasted.

c)

Mr Rowe's snacks are some of the best I have ever tasted.

d)

Mr Rowe's snacks are some of the best I have ever tasted