Main Idea and Theme
One to two words that explain the subject being discussed.
What is topic.
Helps readers figure out texts. examples: title, heading, maps, graphs,
What are Text features.
A genre in nonfiction which is a story of one's own life.
What is autobiography.
The highest point of interest, the place where ideas are drawn together, an important turning point in a series of actions, or the most forceful event in a story.
What is climax.
When you compare two unlike things using the words like or as and when you compare two unlike things stating that something "IS" or state of being...
What is simile & Metaphor.
A lesson or moral the author wants you to learn in story or text selection.
What is the Theme?
this type structure has key words such as first, then, next, finally...
What is Sequence.
A prefix that means life.
What is bio.
Concludes the action and ensures that all important plot lines have been tied.
What is resolution.
The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
What is onomatopoeia.
The central point of a piece of writing or what the overall subject/topic is in a selection.
What is main idea.
Roses are plants that have thorns. Roses can grow up to 5 feet and are know to grow into bushes. Roses are single celled plants that only grow in the winter. Roses can have a range of color etc.
What is description
Books that are about real things, people, events, and places.
What is nonfiction.
The beginning of a story, where the characters and setting are introduced.
What is exposition.
The repetition of vowel consonant sounds.
Example: The flowing, fluffy clouds, fainted away in the far away distance.
What is Alliteration.
What is this: Can be found through character thoughts & actions, through conflict, through the title
What are ways to find theme
Girls vs. Boys; Girls tend to grow much faster than boys. boys grow faster than girls after grade 7. Girls tend to mature faster than boys; it takes boys a little longer, by age 21 to mature.
What is compare & contrast
An essential trait of a biography that helps the reader understand the subject in context to the historical time period or based on any historical event.
What is historical fiction?
Events in a story that build up the conflict.
What are rising action events?
to give something non-living human like traits or qualities
What is personification
must use this to figure out Theme-- Educated guess based on text evidence
What is Inference?
Changes in the ozone layers in the Earth's atmosphere is causing major Global Warming.
What is Cause & Effect
Tells us when a character is talking and/or speech between characters in a selection or text-- identified by quotation marks
What is dialogue?
Events that lead up to the resolution of a story-- conflicts are getting solved.
What are falling action events.
A phrase that is understood to mean something quite different from what individual words of the phrase would LITERALLY imply.
What is Idiom.