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Practice Test: reading Flashcards

1
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_ genre

Gods and goddesses, abilities that surpass humans

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Myth

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_ genre

Magic
Royal beings
Happily ever after

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Fairy tales

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3
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_ genre

Story is acted out
Stage directions

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Drama

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4
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_ plot

Action

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Rising action

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5
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_ plot

Background information about character

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Exposition

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6
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_ plot

Occurs after rising action and b fore falling action

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Climax

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7
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_ plot problem is resolved

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Resolution

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8
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Style of language determined by purpose, audience, and social context

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Register

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9
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Analysis of roots and affixes of words

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Structural analysis

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10
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Grammatical formation and pattern of sentences

Use to decipher meaning of word if no root

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Syntax

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11
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Intended meaning of a word beyond its literal meaning

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Connotation

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12
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Over exaggerated statement

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Hyperbole

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13
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Attribution of human characteristics to nonhuman thing or abstract idea

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Personification

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14
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Comparison using like or as

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Simile

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15
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Expression that means more than the sum of its parts

Used by specific population

It’s raining cats and dogs

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Idiom

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16
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Features animals and explicit moral lesson

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Fable

17
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Unverified stories, hero’s overcome obstacles

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Legend

18
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_ underlying idea the author wants to convey

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Theme

19
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Understanding of how phonemes can be orally manipulated to change meaning of words

Ex: substitute g for b in boat to get goat

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Phonemic awareness

20
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Connect oral sounds to written letters

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Letter-sound correspondence

21
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M is likely to be introduced first because

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It contains its sound in its name and only forms one sound

22
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Reading smoothly and steadily is an example of

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Reading rate

23
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_ text is fictional, novels,stories, poetry

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Literary text

24
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_ Writing style

Fictional story
Memoir

*purpose is to entertain

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Narrative

25
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Form of sign language that uses the hands to represent letters

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Finger spelling

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