Reading Semester Review

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Genre is a ____ meaning category, class, style, type or variety (of books)

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French word

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Which genre is an account of a real person's life written by someone else?

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Biography

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Which genre has a puzzling event or situation to be solved?

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Mystery

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Which genre has characters that solve problems in a futuristic setting?

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Science fiction

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Which genre has action, suspense, and and characters overcome amazing obstacles?

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Adventure

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Which genre is dark, dismal, eerie and gruesome where the Antagonist provikes fear, anger, or tension?

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Horror

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Which genre is an account by a person about his or her own life?

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Autobiography

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Which genre gives factual and verifiable information about a specific subject?

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Expository text

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Which genre is a story involving real people and actual events that happened in history?

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Historical fiction

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The following is an example of what genre? Harry, while living at his aunt's and uncles home, starts to receive letters in the mail from Hogwarts: The School of Wizardry. His aunt and uncle try everything in their power to keep Harry from going, but he is taken away from his oppressive aunt and uncle by a gentle giant named Hagrid, the grounds keeper of Hogwarts.

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Fantasy

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The following is an example of what genre? Sacagawea was a native American woman who accompanied the Corps of Discovery of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Most of what is know of her life is from incomplete recores and is therefore imbued with a gread deal of legend and hearsay.

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Biography

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The following is an example of what genre? The tale of the famous Titanic passenger liner claimed to be unsinkable. This claim was proved to be false when it hit an iceberg when crossing the Atlantic. The drama unfolds as the passengers and crew race against thime to get off the sinking vessel and decide who will go into the lifeboats that can only hold half of the ships population.

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Historical fiction

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The following is an example of what genre? Where your worst mightmares lives...Delia and Karina are always competing. From getting the best grades, to being the most popular, to dating the cutest guys - they always fight for the top spot and horible things happen to the people that live there.

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Horror

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The following is an example of what genre? A detective, either an amatuer or a professional, solves a crime or series of crimes. The detective may be a private investigaror, a policeman, an elderly widow, or a young girl, but e or she generally has nothing material to gain from solving the crime.

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Mystery

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Newspapers and Enclyclopedias are an example of what genre?

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Expository text

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____ is when an author describes events that happend in the past.

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Flashback

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____ is the author's attitude.

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Tone

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____ is the way the 'reader' feels.

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Mood

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____ is when an author gives hings or clues to suggest what will happen later in the story.

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Foreshadow

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A heart meaning 'love' is considered a ____.

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Symbol

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The three types of tone are:

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Positive, negative and neutral

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A ____ is an image, event, person or object that stands for/represents another idea.

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SYMBOL

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the high school senior remembers her first day of kindergarten. This is an example of ____.

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FLASHBACK

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Nothing could go wrong, on such a beautiful day. The children played baseball, laughed and ran through the grass. They did not see the dark fog silently rolling into town. This is an example of ____.

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Foreshadowing

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Graphic Organiziers are used to _____.

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Help visualize a story

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What graphic organizer would you use to show the hierarchy (arranged in order of rank) of the hightest ranking people in the USA government (President Obama, Vice President Biden, Secretary of State Clinton)?

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Order of importance

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The person who tells the story.

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Narrator

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The dictionary definition of a word.

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Denotative

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An educated guess.

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Inference

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A narrator that uses 'I, me, myself, we and our'

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First person

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A word's 'extra meaning or sense' when used a certain way (slang)

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Connotative

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In order based on location.

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Spatial order

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A narrator that describes thoughts of ONLY ONE character.

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3rd Person limited

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Similarties, differences and common areas.

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Compare and contrast

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A narrator that has an 'all knowing' point of view

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3rd person omniscient

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____ is the the moral, message or lesson learned of a story.

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Theme

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_____ is the villian of the story.

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Antagonist

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____ is the hero of the story.

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Protagonist

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____ is the turning point or most exciting part of the story.

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Climax

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____ is the actual words that the characters speak.

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Dialogue

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____ is the time and place of a story.

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Setting

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The five parts of a Plot are:

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Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution

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The four types of CONFLICT are:

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Man vs Man
Man vs Self
Man vs Nature
Man vs Society

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What is the meaning of the prefix(es): un, ir, a, dis, non, im, and in?

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Not

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What is the meaning of the suffix-ist?

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One who believes in

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What is the meaning of the suffix-ology?

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The study of

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What is the meaning of the prefix pre-?

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Before

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Reading Junior High School opened in 2010.

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Fact

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Reading Junior High School is the BEST school in the state of Texas.

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Opinion

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The Texas state flower is a Bluebonnet.

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Fact

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Texas is the second largest state in the United States of America.

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Fact

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Susie's dad has an owesome car.

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Opinion

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____ is the use of extreme exaggeration to create emphasis.

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Hyperbole

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____ compares one thing as another in order to illustrate a dominant characteristic, does NOT use 'like or as.'

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Metaphor

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____ compares two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.

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Simile

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____ is a word that creates the sound it describes.

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Onomatopeia

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____ is giving human actions or characteristics to something that is not human and is likely inanimate.

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Personification

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____ is the repetition of word sounds in a sentance

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Alliteration

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"I called your house a million time last night," is an example of what type of figurative language?

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Hyperbole

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"The green gras grew high around the garden or Peter Piper picked a pepper," is an example of what type of figurative language?

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ALLITERATION

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"The sun peeked from behind the clouds and the trees danced in the breeze," is an example of what type of figurative lange?

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Personification

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"There was a loud BOOM and then a SPLASH," is an example of what type of figurative language?

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ONOMATOPEIA

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Students were wearing coats inside the school, because the classroom was like a freezer," is an example of what type of figurative language?

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SIMILE

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"I bathe every morning and wear clean clothes to school, but Jimmy is a pig," is an example of what type of figurative language?

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METAPHOR

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There are (3) types of Author's Purpose, they are :

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To persuade
To inform
To entertain

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____ 'states the facts' ans is Non-Fiction.

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To inform

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____ 'expression an opinion to convince readers to think/feel/act a certain way? Many times it is used in advertisements to confince a reader to purchase something.

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To persuade

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____ is a 'story' and is Fiction.

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To entertain

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News Articles are considered what type of Author's Purpose?

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TO INFORM

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'Billboards and Commercials' are considered what type of Author's Purpose?

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TO PERSUAGE

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Biographies and Technical manuals are considered what type of Author's Purpose?

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TO INFORM

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Short stories, Poetry, and Drama are considered what type of Author's Purpose?

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TO ENTERTAIN

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There are two types of roots. They are taproots and fibrous roots.

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Inform

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Vote for Mr. Nava for 'Principal of the Year!' He is fair, consistent, funny, kind, smart and honest. He represents the interests of all the students at Reading Junior High School. Vote for Mr. Nava!

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Persuade

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Only $1.00 per pizza slice. Buy one many slices of pizza and help student Council buy candy for all the students on Halloween.

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Persuade

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Shrek is a fictional short story about an Ogre that lives in a swamp and unexpectedly finds love.

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Entertain

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Sugar Land, Texas is a city of approximately 85,000 citizens. It is ht ehome of the original Imperial Sugar Company factory. There are many places to shop including the First Cololy Mann. It also has an ice skating rink, a small airport and the city is about to build a minor league baseball field in 2011.

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Inform

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Identify two (2) types of figurative language which are utilized in the following sentence? "Opened wide, the skylight seemed to gulp like a gasping mouth."

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Personification, simile

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Identify the literary device which is utilized in the following sentance? "I just got a message this morning. Someone up in Administration is expecting you."

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Foreshadowing