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What is foreshadowing?
author's hints and clues about what might happen later in the story
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What is a synonym?
a word that has a similar meaning to another word
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What are primary sources?
interviews, letters, diaries, newspapers, and personal narratives
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What is a prediction?
making an educated guess about what will happen in a story
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What is a pun?
Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I'll show you A Flat minor.
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What is tone?
the writer's attitude towards his or her audience and subject
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What is a prefix?
a group of letters added to the beginning of a word that can change its meaning
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What is a focused research topic?
the least broad topic; narrowed down; able to successfully write about
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What is the persuasive device of plain folks?
a typical family being shown going on a vacation in a Toyota Sienna
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What is third person omniscient point of view?
The All-Seeing-Eye... knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters in the story
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What is the climax?
the turning point of the story; point of highest tension
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What is a foreign phrase?
a foreign word or expression that one country takes from another to use in their everyday language
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What is the least reliable source?
supermarket tabloid
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What are examples of text features?
title, caption, index, heading, footnote
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What is an example of internal rhyme?
The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plains.
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What is an inference?
a conclusion drawn from evidence or reasoning; reading between the lines
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What is a social mistake?
faux pas
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What are secondary sources?
reference books, periodicals, biographies
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What are the ways informational text can be organized?
chronological, cause-effect, comparison-contrast, sequential, and problem-solution
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What are different genres?
poetry, drama, novel, biography, short stories, nonfiction, and fairy tales
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What is connotation?
emotional associations with a word
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What are context clues?
ways to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words
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What are person vs. person, person vs. self, person vs. environment, person vs. technology?
the four types of conflict
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What is deductive reasoning?
generally accepted to be true---to a specific incident...
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What is an implied theme?
a universal message about life that is shown through symbols, metaphors, similes, imagery and is not directly stated
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