Review for 8th Kansas Reading Assessments
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adgraham on February 23, 2009
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Use this as a study tool for the state assessment. Have your parents record the time you spend studying with their signature. If you study for an hour or more...you get extra credit in language arts!
Classes:
FRMS Team 9 Gurus, Ms. Graham Team 9 Language Arts
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Fact | Something that can be proven or repeated. Example: The average gas price in the United States for February 2009 is $1.94 a gallon. |
| Opinion | A personal belief that canont be proven. Example: My favorite color is blue. |
| Target Audience | A group of people that advertisers try to sell their products or ideas to. Example: A commercial for cat food may be targeting women who are 30-70 years old. |
| Glittering Generality | A fallacy that uses vague and emotionally appealing words closely associated with highly-valued concepts and beliefs. Example: This amazing new product will change your life forever! |
| Bandwagon | A fallacy that makes a population think that everyone else is doing it so you should too. Example: Americans love to go green. Don't be left out of the pack--use energy efficient vehicles! |
| Personification | A type of figurative language that gives human characteristics to non-human objects. Example: The wind whistled through the trees. |
| Symbolism | The use of a thing, character, or object to represent something of deeper meaning. Example: A bald eagle represents American freedom. |
| Idiom | An expression with a meaning different than its literal meaning. Example: It's raining cats and dogs outside! |
| Hyperbole | An extreme exaggeration. Example: I'm so hungry I could eat a hippo! |
| Alliteration | The repitition of the same consonant sound in words that are close to each other in a sentences (tongue twisters). Example: Sam sang sweet songs slowly. |
| Onomatopoeia | The use of a word that sounds like its meaning. Example: The humming bird buzzed past my head on its way to the flower. |
| Metaphor | Comparing two unlike things without using like or as (saying something IS something else). Example: The road was a ribbon of moonlight. |
| Simile | A comparision of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as." Example: He was as cunning as a fox. |
| Analogy | Showing similarities between unlike objects by creating patterns. Examples: [students] : [teachers] :: [patients] : [doctors] |
| Compare/Contrast | Comparing two or more things by showing similarities and differences between them. Example: The movies "Finding Nemo" and "Beauty and the Beast" are both animated movies produced by Disney, but one is a story about a fish finding his way back home to his father and the other is a story about a young woman who learns to love inner beauty more than outter beauty. |
| Chronological | Events arranged according to time (time lines). Example: In US history, we first became a nation in 1776, then we fought in WWI in 1917, then we entered WWII in 1941, and finally in 1998 the International Space Station begins construction. |
| Problem/Solution | When you identify some sort of issue (problem) and this discussion possible ways to solve that issue (solution). Example: When I woke up this morning, my car had a flat tire (problem). I can either call a cab (solution 1), have my friends take me to work (solution 2), or have a tow truck come and take my car to the repair shop (solution 3). |
| Resolution | The part in a story's plot where all events come to an end. Example: In the fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood," Red and her grandmother are reunited after the hunter kills the wolf. |
| Falling Action | The part in a story's plot after the climax when things are beginning to calm down. Example: In the fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood," the grandmother comes out of the wolf safe and sound. |
| Climax | The part in a story's plot that is the most intense (nothing else important happens after this point). Example: In the fairy tale, "Little Red Riding Hood," the hunter comes into the cabin just as Red is being attacked by the wolf and the hunter stops the attack and kills the big bad wolf. |
| Rising Action | The events in a story's plot that lead up to the point of highest intensity. There are several events that make up this section. Example: In the fairy tale, "Little Red Riding Hood," the little girl goes into the woods with her basket of goodies (event 1), she meets the wolf who tells her to go to one way while he takes a short cut (event 2), the wolf beats Red to the grandmother's house and eats the grandmother (event 3), he dresses up as the grandmother and waits for Red (event 4), and finally Red arrives and the dialogue "Oh what big eyes you have" happens (event 5) |
| Exposition | The part in a story's plot that introduces the characters and gives the reader background on the story. Example: In the fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood," Red and her mother bake a basket of goodies to take to Red's sick grandmother. |
| Setting | The time, place, and social milieu of a story. Example: The fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood" takes place in the 1700s in a small village with woods. The town is poor, but doing well. |
| Narrative | A genre of text that tells a story and follows a plot. Example: A novel is a narrative. |
| Persuasive | A genre of text that tries to convince someone of something. Example: Magazine ads try to convince the people reading the magazine to buy their products. |
| Expository | A genre of text that is explaining something. Example: The papers you wrote for the State Writing Assessment asked you to EXPLAIN your reasons for soemthing. |
| Technical | A genre of text that uses step-by-step instructions or gives directions. Example: How to assemble a bike instructions. |
| Agri | The root word meaning "field." Example: Agriculture |
| Aud | The root word meaning "sound." Example: Audio |
| Bene | The root word meaning "good." Example: Beneficial |
| Circum | The root word meaning "around." Example: Circumference |
| Corp | The root word meaning "body." Example: Corpse |
| Dict | The root word meaning "speak." Example: Dictate |
| Dur | The root word meaning "solid." Example: Durable |
| Equ/Equi | The root word meaning "Equal." Example: Equator |
| Hydro | The root word meaning "water." Example: Hydrolics |
| Luna | The root word meaning "moon." Example: Lunar Eclipse |
| Nav | The root word meaning "to travel." Example: Navigate |
| Ped | The root word meaning "foot." Example: Pedicure |
| Sci | The root word meaning "know." Example: Science |
| Sent/Sens | The root word meaning " feel, be aware." Example: Sensitive |
| Sol/Soli | The root word meaning "sun." Example: Solstice |
| Spec | The root word meaning "look, see." Example: Spectacles |
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