MCA Reading Test Vocabulary (SOLVED!)

(Intended) Audience correct answers the group of people the author thinks will read his/her writing Author's Message correct answers the author's main purpose or theme Main Idea correct answers the most important idea or big concept Give Evidence correct answers explain why (give proof) using information from the text - a statement is a fact/opinion, list reasons to support an opinion. Summarize correct answers retell the main points in your own words Make Inferences correct answers use ideas and clues in the text to figure out the main idea Story Elements correct answers There are 6: Setting - time an place where the story happens. Plot - the events in the story listed in order. Conflict - the problem in the story. Resolution - the end of the story/how the problem is resolved. Theme - a moral or lesson about life or human nature. Tone - the author's attitude toward a topic. Point of View correct answers the perspective the story is told from: 1st person: told from the perspective of a character in the story. (I, we, me, etc.) 3rd person: told from the perspective of a narrator who is NOT in the story. (he, she, they,etc. Who is telling the story? Compare correct answers find similarities (things that are almost the same) Contrast correct answers find differences Figurative Language correct answers words used to describe in a unique way for example: Simile - a comparison of unlike things that uses like or as. Metaphor - a comparison of unlike things that does NOT use like or as Fact correct answers something you know is true Opinion correct answers what someone thinks or feels; a belief (can't be proven) Interpretation correct answers to explain what you think the passage means Article correct answers a nonfiction, usually informative piece of writing Passage correct answers a section of text from a poem, story or an article