Practice Test: reading Flashcards
_ genre
Gods and goddesses, abilities that surpass humans
Myth
_ genre
Magic
Royal beings
Happily ever after
Fairy tales
_ genre
Story is acted out
Stage directions
Drama
_ plot
Action
Rising action
_ plot
Background information about character
Exposition
_ plot
Occurs after rising action and b fore falling action
Climax
_ plot problem is resolved
Resolution
Style of language determined by purpose, audience, and social context
Register
Analysis of roots and affixes of words
Structural analysis
Grammatical formation and pattern of sentences
Use to decipher meaning of word if no root
Syntax
Intended meaning of a word beyond its literal meaning
Connotation
Over exaggerated statement
Hyperbole
Attribution of human characteristics to nonhuman thing or abstract idea
Personification
Comparison using like or as
Simile
Expression that means more than the sum of its parts
Used by specific population
It’s raining cats and dogs
Idiom
Features animals and explicit moral lesson
Fable
Unverified stories, hero’s overcome obstacles
Legend
_ underlying idea the author wants to convey
Theme
Understanding of how phonemes can be orally manipulated to change meaning of words
Ex: substitute g for b in boat to get goat
Phonemic awareness
Connect oral sounds to written letters
Letter-sound correspondence
M is likely to be introduced first because
It contains its sound in its name and only forms one sound
Reading smoothly and steadily is an example of
Reading rate
_ text is fictional, novels,stories, poetry
Literary text
_ Writing style
Fictional story
Memoir
*purpose is to entertain
Narrative
Form of sign language that uses the hands to represent letters
Finger spelling