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Comprehension question types (know what is being asked)
| Main idea / theme | The central point of the WHOLE passage; the title fits it |
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| Explicit detail | A fact stated directly — scan for the keyword and read that line |
| Inference | A conclusion not stated but strongly implied by the text |
| Tone / mood | The writer's attitude or feeling (e.g. critical, nostalgic, joyful) |
| Vocabulary in context | Meaning of a word/phrase AS USED here, not its dictionary range |
| Reference / pronoun | What a word like it, they or this points back to |
Poetic devices & figures of speech
| Simile | Compares two things using like or as (brave as a lion) |
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| Metaphor | A direct comparison without like/as (her voice is music) |
| Personification | Gives human qualities to non-human things (the wind whispered) |
| Alliteration | Same consonant sound repeated at the start of nearby words |
| Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates a sound (buzz, hiss, splash) |
| Hyperbole | Deliberate exaggeration for effect (I have told you a million times) |
| Imagery | Sensory language that paints a picture in the mind |
| Rhyme | Matching end sounds; the pattern is the rhyme scheme (aabb, abab) |