TABE Reading Terms Questions and 100%
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Genre - ✔✔Writing takes various forms. They may be fiction, poetry, and drama in the
Literary (Literature) genres. In Nonfiction genres, they may include essays, biography, and
autobiography.
Style Techniques - ✔✔Word choice, imagery, and figurative language are used by the author
to communicate moods and feelings.
Figurative Language - ✔✔Simile, metaphor, and personification.
Personification - ✔✔A kind of figurative language where an animal, an object, and/or anything
not human is compared to a human being in some way.
Imagery - ✔✔A style of writing that appeals to the reader in an image of our five senses: see,
hear, touch, taste, and smell.
Author's Effect and Intention - ✔✔The tone or attitude toward an author's subject. It helps the
reader to determine the author's effect. It may be sarcastic, humorous, angry, frightened, or cheerful
etc.
Passage Elements - ✔✔Use your knowledge, and elements of good reading and writing to
analyze, understand and appreciate what you read to extend meaning to the passage.
, Analogies - ✔✔Compare the relationship between one pair of words to the relationship between
another pair of words. Example finger : hand :: toe : foot This is read finger is to hand as toe is to foot
What is the relationship? part to whole
Homophones - ✔✔Words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have different
meanings. Example: here and hear
Synonyms - ✔✔Words with meanings that are the same or near the same. Example: noisy and loud
Antonyms - ✔✔Words that have opposite meanings Example: dirty and clean
Context clue - ✔✔It is the words, phrases, and sentences that surround a word in the passage
being read. Context can give you clues to the word's meaning.
Similes - ✔✔A figure of speech in which one object or idea is compared with another in order
to suggest that they are alike. It always uses the word like or as in its description.
Metaphor - ✔✔It compares one thing to another. It metaphor does not use like or as, it says that
one thing is something else.
Onomatopoetic - ✔✔Words that sound like the actual sounds they name. Example: clang kerplunk
Identifying Details - ✔✔They are important because they support the main idea of a paragraph
or passage. They can define a topic and they can explain a fact or idea.
Sequence - ✔✔The order in which events happen in the passage. One way writers convey sequence
is by using words that indicate order, such as first, next, then, this time, before, after, and finally.
Correct Answers
Genre - ✔✔Writing takes various forms. They may be fiction, poetry, and drama in the
Literary (Literature) genres. In Nonfiction genres, they may include essays, biography, and
autobiography.
Style Techniques - ✔✔Word choice, imagery, and figurative language are used by the author
to communicate moods and feelings.
Figurative Language - ✔✔Simile, metaphor, and personification.
Personification - ✔✔A kind of figurative language where an animal, an object, and/or anything
not human is compared to a human being in some way.
Imagery - ✔✔A style of writing that appeals to the reader in an image of our five senses: see,
hear, touch, taste, and smell.
Author's Effect and Intention - ✔✔The tone or attitude toward an author's subject. It helps the
reader to determine the author's effect. It may be sarcastic, humorous, angry, frightened, or cheerful
etc.
Passage Elements - ✔✔Use your knowledge, and elements of good reading and writing to
analyze, understand and appreciate what you read to extend meaning to the passage.
, Analogies - ✔✔Compare the relationship between one pair of words to the relationship between
another pair of words. Example finger : hand :: toe : foot This is read finger is to hand as toe is to foot
What is the relationship? part to whole
Homophones - ✔✔Words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have different
meanings. Example: here and hear
Synonyms - ✔✔Words with meanings that are the same or near the same. Example: noisy and loud
Antonyms - ✔✔Words that have opposite meanings Example: dirty and clean
Context clue - ✔✔It is the words, phrases, and sentences that surround a word in the passage
being read. Context can give you clues to the word's meaning.
Similes - ✔✔A figure of speech in which one object or idea is compared with another in order
to suggest that they are alike. It always uses the word like or as in its description.
Metaphor - ✔✔It compares one thing to another. It metaphor does not use like or as, it says that
one thing is something else.
Onomatopoetic - ✔✔Words that sound like the actual sounds they name. Example: clang kerplunk
Identifying Details - ✔✔They are important because they support the main idea of a paragraph
or passage. They can define a topic and they can explain a fact or idea.
Sequence - ✔✔The order in which events happen in the passage. One way writers convey sequence
is by using words that indicate order, such as first, next, then, this time, before, after, and finally.
