Fiction
Non-Fiction
Poetry
Test-Taking Strategies
Text Structure
100

The main message, moral, lesson a character learns throughout a passage

Theme

100

What the text is mostly about

Central Idea

100

The four types of poems.

limericks, haikus, rhymed verses, and free verses?

100

A text feature that immediately gives you a hint about what the passage topic will be.

Heading

100

When one event causes something else to happen.

Cause and Effect


200

How a character sees, thinks, or feels about something

Character Perspective


200

Point of View

Primary Source - person was there

Secondary Source - not there

200

What is the difference between a limerick and haiku?

Limerick has 5 lines, AABBA rhyme scheme, and is funny.

Haiku has 3 lines, 5 7 5 syllable pattern, and is about nature.  

200

Where do you look to find how a character developed/changed in the passage?

In the beginning and the end of the passage.

200

A passage is told in order by time with dates and times

Chronolgy

300

Setting, characters, plot, conflict/resolution, event 

Literary Elements


300

Who, what, when, where, why

summarize

300

What is the difference between a line and a stanza?

A stanza is a group of lines and a line is just one row.

300

In a fiction summary, the two details that are most important to include.

What is the problem (conflict) and solution (resolution)?

300

Steps in order

Sequence

400

 Authors Purpose

Persuade

Inform

Entertain


400

The point the author is trying to make about a topic.

Author's claim


400

True or False: Poems do not have characters.

False

400

Text features that could be seen in the passage.

What are titles, bolded words, graphs, timelines, photographs, and captions?

400

Describing what something is or how something works

Description 

500

Who is telling the story 

Point of view

-3rd: he, they, she

-1st: Me, I, my 

500

How does the author support their claim

-Evidence

- Facts

500

How many lines must a rhymed verse or free verse poem have?

There is no limit!

500

In a non-fiction summary, the two details that are most important to include.

The two details that support or state the central idea/author's claim.

500

Introducing a conflict, and then provides one or more answers 

Problem and solution 

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