Reading Exam Flashcards

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Someone’s point of view and how he feels about a subject

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Perspective

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The authors attitude towards his subject

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Tone

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Conversations in a story

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Dialogue

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The way a poem is written

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Poetry style

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Words with the same sounding Ending

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Rhyming words

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Words that don’t usually rhyme and there is no particular pattern

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Free verse

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Person place or thing that suggest a different meaning

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Symbolism

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Group of lines forming unit problem

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Stanza

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Context clues from the story

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Supporting evidence

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9
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Language that is not taken seriously

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Figurative language

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A direct comparison of two unrelated things that uses the words like or as

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Simile

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A comparison of two unlike things that calls one thing another not using like or as

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Metaphor

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A comparison that gives qualities of a person to an animal object or idea

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Personification

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13
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And exaggerated statement used to emphasize a point

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Hyperbole

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A word or phrase with the special meaning different from the ordinary meaning of the words

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Idiom

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15
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Repetition of getting constant sounds of neighboring words

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Alliteration

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The storyline or what is happening in the story

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Plot

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Parts of literature that make up a story

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Literary elements

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18
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Remembering a memory that has happened in the past

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Flashback

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Explaining something in great detail using the five senses

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The feeling created in the reading.

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Repairing of seeing something that might happen in the future

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Foreshadowing

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Words to express the opposite of what it means

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Conflict in your head

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Internal conflict

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Conflict with man versus man or man versus object
External conflict
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What the whole story is about
Theme
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The controlling idea
Main idea
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To make a guess based on context clues
Inference
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The ending to a story or resolution
Conclusion
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Agitated with doubt or mental conflict
Distraught
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Viewing the future with anxiety or alarm
Apprehensive
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In infringement or violation of the law command or duty
Transgression
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To criticize severely; to rebuke
Chastise
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Lacking distinctive or interesting qualities
Nondescript
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To give relief or deliverance to for a time
Reprieve
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Extremely careful
Meticulously
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The cognitive process of gaining skills or knowledge
Acquisition
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Gradual increase, especially in the volume or intensity of sound
Crescendo
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Requested something to be furnished
Requisitioned
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Very intense; agonizing
Excruciating
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Attracting attention
Conspicuous
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The moving of items from one place to another
Conveyance
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Formally requested
Petitioned
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Great and bloody slaughter
Carnage
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One that receives and contain something; a container
Receptacle
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Giving legal power or rights
Empowered
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Secretively; furtively
Stealthily
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A cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches
Foliage
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Calling upon in supplication, beseeching; begging for urgently or anxiously
Imploring