Eog Reading Review

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Imagery

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Appeals to sight, smell, hearing, and touch

Paints an image in the mind of the reader

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Simile

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Paints a picture in the mind of the reader by comparing it to something familiar using like or as

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Metaphor

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Paints a picture in the mind of the reader by comparing it to something familiar without using like or as

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Personification

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Paints a picture in the mind of the reader by comparing it to something a human does

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Hyperbole

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An exaggeration to emphasize

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Onomatopoeia

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Words meant to imitate sounds

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Rhyme

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Creates rhythm; sounds like a beat

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Rhyme Scheme

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A pattern of rhyme shown with letters

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Alliteration

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Creates rhythm by repeating consonant sounds at the beginning of words

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Plot

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The events that take place in a fictional story

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Conflict

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The main problem faced by characters in a story

The issue/trouble that is usually discovered in the exposition (beginning) and is solved by the resolution

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Setting

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Can help create a mood (scary, calm)

Can help the reader visualize where the story is taking place

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Theme

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The overall universal idea or message of the text (friendship, love, trust, respect)

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Moral

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Lessons that are learned from reading a story

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First Person Point of View

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Pronouns: Me, my, and I

The reader only hears the inner thoughts of character, the narrator, who is telling the story

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Third Person Point of View

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Pronouns: He, she, they

The narrator is not a character in the story; can't interact with others; follows the actions of characters

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Mood

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The feeling the reader is supposed to get based on the words and phrases used by the author

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Tone

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The way the speaker or author would sound if s/he were reading the text (funny, sarcastic, somber)

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Foreshadow

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Gives clues about what will happen next

Helps the reader better understand current characters events

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Flashback

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Gives background information about what happened previously

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Dialogue

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Words spoken by actors in a play or characters in a story

Often set off by quotation marks (" ")

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Dialect

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How someone speaks; words will be spelled differently so you can tell how the character is speaking.

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Verbal Irony

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A contrast between what is said and what is meant (sarcasm)

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Dramatic Irony

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The audience knows something that one of the characters does not

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Situational Irony

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The contrast between what happens and what would be expected to happen

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Author's Purpose- Inform

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Scientific articles, biography, autobiography, most news, recipes

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Author's Purpose- Entertain

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Imagery, poems, most fiction

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Author's Purpose- Persuade

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Bias, stereotypes, loaded words

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Stereotypes

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Applying a set of characteristics to a whole group of people; this is unfair and can form the bases of prejudice; some stereotypes are positive, but most are negative

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Bias

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When the author's personal feelings and opinions influence his/her words; newspaper editorials, and political cartoons contain bias

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Analogies

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Check by lining up the parts of speech

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Hints:

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Look for context clues ( in the text) and structure analysis (roots, prefixes, and suffixes) and connections

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Significance

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The importance of something

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Indicate

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"Show". What does the character's action indicate?

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Imply

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"Suggest". What does the action imply?

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Link

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"Connection". What's the link between the characters?

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Symbolize

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"Represent". What does the award symbolize?

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Hints:

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Captions, pictures, side bars, graphic organizer

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Compare

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To examine similarities (how things are alike)

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Contrast

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To examine differences (how things are different)

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Infer/To make an inference

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To come to a conclusion based on evidence in the passage

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Predict

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To guess what's going to happen next based on what you have already read

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Graphics

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Things like maps, charts, illustrations, and graphs that help you understand the text better