English Flash Cards

Front 1

Predict

Back 1

Try to figure out what will happen next and how the selection might end. Then read on to see how accurate your guesses were.

Front 2

Visualize

Back 2

Visualize characters, events and setting to help you understand what's happening. When you read nonfiction, pay attention to the images that form in your mind as you read.

Front 3

Connect

Back 3

Connect personally with what you're reading. Think of similarities between the descriptions in the selection and what you have personally experienced, heard about, and read about.

Front 4

Question

Back 4

Question what happens while you read. Searching for reasons behind events and characters' feelings can help you feel closer to what you are reading.

Front 5

Clarify

Back 5

Stop occasionally to review what you understand, and expect to have your understanding change and develop as you read on. Reread and use resources to help you clarify your understanding. Also watch for answers to questions you had earlier.

Front 6

Evaluate

Back 6

Form opinions about what you read, both while you're reading and after you're finished. Develop your own ideas about characters and events.

Front 7

Calibrated

Back 7

adj. marked with measurements calibrate v.

Front 8

Consternation

Back 8

n. a confused amazement or fear

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Cower

Back 9

v. to draw in fear; cringe

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Hindrance

Back 10

n. something that interferes with an activity; obstacle

Front 11

Luminous

Back 11

adj. bright; brillant

Front 12

Symmetry

Back 12

n. a similarity between the two sides of something; balance

Front 13

Synchronizing

Back 13

v. matching the timing of synchronize v.

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Vague

Back 14

adj. unclear; hazy

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Vigilance

Back 15

n. alert attention; watchfulness

Front 16

Wince

Back 16

v. to shrink or flinch involuntarily, especially in pain.

Front 17

Theme

Back 17

The central idea or message of a story.

Front 18

Inferences

Back 18

Are logical guesses based on clues in the text and on common sense.

Front 19

Indomitable

Back 19

adj. not easily discouraged, defeated, or subdued.

Front 20

Omen

Back 20

n. a thing or event supposed to foretell good or evil; a sign.

Front 21

Unavailing

Back 21

adj. useless; ineffective.

Front 22

Voluble

Back 22

adj. in or with a long flow of words; talkative.

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Withered

Back 23

adj. shriveled or shrunken, as if form lack of water or food.

Front 24

Characters

Back 24

Are the people who participate in the action of a story or other literary work.

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Plot

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is the chain of related events that take place in a story.

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Dynamic characters

Back 26

characters undergo some sort of change as the plot unflods.

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Static characters

Back 27

characters who remain the same in a story

Front 28

Character's motive

Back 28

is the intention or desire that causes him or her to act in a particular way.

Front 29

Literary

Back 29

pertaining to or of the nature of books and writings, especially those classed as literature: literary history.

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Analysis

Back 30

the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements ( opposed to synthesis).