Free FAST ELA Reading Grade 6 Exam Flashcards

Trace one character's words or actions to another character's response, then connect that response to a changed goal, conflict, decision, or event. The final link matters: it shows how the interaction moves the plot rather than merely describing the characters.

A trait names what a character is like; an interaction effect explains what happens because characters meet, disagree, cooperate, or influence each other. Choose evidence that produces a plot consequence, not evidence that only labels a personality.

It becomes a turning point when the exchange redirects the conflict or changes what a character does next. If later events would unfold the same way without the interaction, it probably is not the turning point.

Conflict creates pressure that forces choices and consequences. Those choices can raise the stakes, reveal new obstacles, or trigger the next event, so explain the resulting change instead of stopping at 'the characters disagree.'

A topic is a subject such as courage or friendship. A theme is a complete thought expressing the text's message about that subject, such as 'courage grows when people act despite fear.' A one-word answer is not a theme.

A stated theme is expressed directly. An implied theme must be inferred from repeated patterns, conflicts, choices, and outcomes. Both still require evidence from across the text, not a single isolated sentence.

Follow how key events, character choices, and consequences add to or complicate the message from beginning to end. A strong analysis explains how the theme changes or becomes clearer, not just where it first appears.

The resolution shows the lasting consequence of the central choices or conflict. That outcome can confirm, qualify, or overturn an earlier idea, helping you state the author's full message rather than a premature version of it.

Point of view identifies the narrator's position or person, such as first or third person. Perspective is the narrator's or character's particular outlook shaped by experience and beliefs. A narrator can keep the same point of view while revealing different perspectives.

Each narrator may reveal different knowledge, motives, or interpretations. Comparing what each includes and omits can expose bias, resolve uncertainty, or create competing versions of the event.

Explain what new information becomes available or unavailable and how that change affects tone, suspense, or judgment of events. Naming the shift earns less insight than explaining its influence.

The reader knows only what the focal narrator knows, so missing motives or unseen events create uncertainty. When the narration later shifts or adds another voice, that information gap may close and alter the reader's interpretation.

Line arrangement, stanza pattern, rhyme, and repetition control pace and emphasis. Connect one structural choice to the idea it highlights; naming the form without explaining its effect is incomplete.

A sonnet often includes a turn, or volta, where the speaker's idea, mood, or argument shifts. Locating the turn helps explain how the poem's compact form develops contrast or arrives at a new understanding.

The two alternating refrain lines return in new contexts and meet at the close. Their repetition creates insistence and can change in significance as surrounding lines develop, so compare what each return now means.

State what the section contributes—such as introducing a problem, supplying evidence, explaining a cause, or presenting a solution—and connect that contribution to the meaning of the whole text.

Identification names a heading, caption, chart, or sidebar. Analysis explains how the feature organizes, clarifies, emphasizes, or adds information and what the reader would miss without it.

Sequence orders events or steps, often by time. Cause and effect explains why something happened and what resulted. Time order alone does not prove causation, so look for a reason-result relationship.

The section defines a difficulty and then presents one or more responses to it. Evaluate how the proposed response addresses the stated problem; a mere list of actions is not necessarily a solution structure.

The topic tells what the text is about; the central idea tells the text's main point about that topic. Phrase the central idea as a complete statement that the important details develop.

Combine repeated or strongly connected details and ask what single point they collectively support. The answer must account for the text as a whole, even when no sentence states it directly.

Each type of support can explain, prove, illustrate, or add authority to the main point. State the support's specific job; merely labeling a sentence as a fact does not show development.

Remove it mentally and ask whether the main point loses necessary explanation or support. A central detail strengthens the idea's development; an interesting aside can disappear without changing that development.

Look at content selection, organization, tone, and calls to think or act. These choices show what the author wants to accomplish more reliably than guessing from the topic alone.

Purpose is the intended effect on the audience, such as explaining or persuading. Perspective is the author's viewpoint or attitude toward the subject. Perspective can shape how the author carries out the purpose.

Compare which details each account emphasizes, omits, or frames positively or negatively. Those differences reveal whether the authors aim to inform, defend, criticize, commemorate, or produce another effect.

Authors can select different facts, sequence them differently, and use words with different connotations. Accuracy does not erase purpose or perspective, so analyze the effect of selection and framing.

A claim is a position the author wants the reader to accept. Evidence is the information offered to support it. Evidence may be relevant yet still insufficient, so check both connection and strength.

Reasoning explains why the evidence supports the claim. Without that logical bridge, a fact may sit beside a claim without proving it, even if both statements are true.

It draws a broad conclusion from too few or unrepresentative examples. The conclusion reaches beyond what the evidence can justify, so the fix is stronger, more representative support or a narrower claim.

First interpret the comparison or image, then name the attitude it creates and cite the wording that creates it. A device label alone does not explain whether the tone becomes playful, tense, admiring, or something else.

A simile makes an explicit comparison using words such as 'like' or 'as'; a metaphor states or implies that one thing is another. In analysis, the comparison's meaning and effect matter more than the label.

Personification gives a nonhuman thing human qualities. Hyperbole deliberately exaggerates for emphasis. A phrase can be vivid without doing either, so identify the precise relationship before explaining its effect.

Alliteration repeats initial consonant sounds to build rhythm or emphasis. Onomatopoeia uses a word that imitates a sound, making an action more immediate. Connect the sound pattern to the scene's meaning or tone.

Use the same basis for both texts—such as treatment of a topic, evidence, tone, or perspective. Comparing one text's tone with the other's structure produces two observations, not a true comparison.

They write within different historical conditions, audiences, conventions, and available knowledge. Use textual evidence to show the difference; context may explain a choice but should not replace analysis of the text.

State one meaningful similarity or difference, support it with evidence from both texts, and explain the effect on each author's message. Two separate summaries do not complete the comparison.

Synthesis combines insights from both texts to reach a broader understanding that neither text provides alone. It goes beyond listing similarities by explaining what the relationship between the texts reveals.

Logos appeals to reasoning through evidence, examples, comparisons, or cause-and-effect logic. Numbers can support logos, but their presence does not guarantee that the reasoning is sound.

Ethos builds trust in a speaker's character, expertise, fairness, or credibility. A title or reputation can contribute to ethos, but the text may also establish credibility through accurate knowledge and balanced treatment.

Pathos uses emotionally charged language, imagery, or stories to stir feelings that support a response. The analytical task is to name the intended emotion and explain how it advances the message.

Identify what each detail primarily targets: reasoning for logos, credibility for ethos, or emotion for pathos. Then explain which appeal dominates the specific sentence or purpose instead of assuming only one can appear in the passage.

A root carries a word's central meaning. An affix attaches before or after a base or root to modify meaning or function. Separating these parts lets you build a meaning instead of guessing from appearance.

A prefix adds meaning at the beginning, such as negation, direction, number, or time. Combine that contribution with the base meaning and then test the result in context; the prefix alone is not the whole definition.

A suffix can change meaning, grammatical role, or both—for example, turning a quality into a noun. Use it to predict how the word functions in the sentence, then combine it with the root or base.

Break the word into known roots and affixes, combine their meanings, and check whether that meaning fits the sentence and subject. Context prevents a familiar root from leading to the wrong modern meaning.

Denotation is a word's direct dictionary meaning. Connotation is the feeling or association the word carries. Two near-synonyms can share a denotation but create different tones because their connotations differ.

Useful clues define, restate, contrast, exemplify, or show a cause or result connected to the word. Point to that relationship and test the inferred meaning in the original sentence.

Synonyms narrow a similar meaning, antonyms signal contrast, and category-example relationships place a word in a known group. Use the relationship as evidence, then verify that the resulting meaning fits the passage.

Use a dictionary, glossary, or other appropriate reference to confirm which meaning fits the passage, especially when a word has several senses. Context proposes the meaning; the reference helps verify precision.