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53 Cards in this Set
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The two most important skills in helping a child learn to read are...
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Letter recognition and phonemic awareness
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This type of writing is an extended fictional prose narrative, from the Italian word novella.
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Novel
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What does phonology mean?
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Phonology means the study of sounds
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What is syntax?
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Syntax is the way in which words are arranged to form phrases and sentences.
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What does aural mean?
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Aural means of the ear; the sense of hearing.
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Which type of poetry has a counted pattern, one that's form is closed, OR one that's form is open?
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One with a closed form.
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What is iambic pentameter?
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A pattern in poetry that has ten syllables that alternate between stressed and unstressed syllables.
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What is assonance?
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Assonance is the repetition of a vowel sound, usually inside a word.
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The repetition of consonants at the beginning of words is called...
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Alliteration
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What is personification?
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A literary device that gives a non-human thing characteristics and/or abilities of a human
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What is the similarity and the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
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Both compare one thing to another. A simile uses the words "like" or "as."
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What is denotation?
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Denotation is the exact definition of a word.
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The easiest phonemic awareness skill for children is often...
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Identifying the first sound in a word
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A smart, well-educated child who cannot read most likely lacks...
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Skills in phonological processing
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What does connotative mean?
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Connotative means the implied meaning of a word.
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List the elements of literature.
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Setting, characters, tone, theme, point of view, plot (including rising action, climax, falling action, denouement).
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What is phonemic awareness?
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Phonemic awareness is a progressive development as one gains understanding of the sounds that letters and letter combinations make.
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What does semantics mean?
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Semantics is the meaning of a word of words.
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What does etymology mean?
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Etymology means the study of words and their origins.
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Speculative, argumentative, narrative, and expository are types of...
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Essays
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What type of poem has 14 lines?
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A sonnet
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Word order, sentence type, and length are defined as...
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Syntax
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Adults acquire new words and expressions primarily through...
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Exposure to their use
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This is a manifestation of the author's tone, or attitude, & the author's purpose
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Satire
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The most advanced strategy for identifying a word is usually...
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Analyzing word structure
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What is a protagonist?
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The character who struggles towards or for something, usually the main character
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What is the difference between free verse and blank verse?
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Neither rhyme. Free verse's metrical pattern shifts; blank verse has a strict rhythm.
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What is an action, situation, or feeling that appears to be contradictory but actually makes sense?
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A paradox
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When contradictory words are placed next to each other, such as working vacation, it's called an...
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Oxymoron
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A poem's line with just one foot (an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllabic) is called a ...
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Monometer
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3rd person narrative, 1st person narrator, and 3rd person omniscient are...
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Points of view
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A story within a song is called ...
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A ballad
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Th most advanced strategy for identifying a word is usually...
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Analyzing word structure
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What does morphology mean?
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Morphology means the study of the forms of words
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A strong oral vocabulary helps a child read because...
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The child can analyze word structure better.
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a,b,a,b,c,b,c,b is an example of?
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Rhyme scheme
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What is consonance?
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Consonance is repetition of the final consonant sound in a series of words.
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The purpose of an argumentative essay is to...
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Present a point and provide evidence to support it
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Does silent, independent reading improve reading achievement?
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We're not sure No research has shown this to be true.
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What is the pattern of stressed or accented words within a line of verse?
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Meter
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What is the difference between a static and a dynamic character?
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A static character does not change enough to impact the story. A dynamic character can impact plot.
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In poetry, what is a grouping of lines with a metrical order and often a repeated rhyme?
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Stanza
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How are the languages of the world similar?
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The basic subject-predicate structure of sentences is the same.
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What is writing that is not poetry It is unmetered, unrhymed, and can be fiction or nonfiction.
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Prose
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What type of meter has a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllable?
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Iambic meter
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Which element of literature is the when of the story and the where?
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Setting
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Onomatopoeia is...
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When a word represents the actual sound described by that word (ie, buzz)
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What are the stages of the writing process?
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Pre-writing (outlining, webbing, etc.), rough draft, self-editing, 2nd draft, peer editing, final draft (publication)
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What is an antagonist?
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The character who struggles against something or someone, usually the "bad guy"
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What is theme?
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Theme is the why of a story, and often the moral.
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What does phonics mean?
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The study of sound
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A poem's form describes its...
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Pattern, or design
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Oral rhyming activities help a child to ...
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Understand the sounds shared by words in the same word family
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