Drama
What do we call the author of a play?
Who is a playwright?
The beginning of the story where the characters and setting are introduced.
What are stanzas?
This is the author's position or idea on the topic.
What is A Claim?
What type of sentence combines 2 independent clauses?
What is a compound sentence?
What is the main division of a drama, which may be further divided into scenes?
What are Acts?
This type of figurative language gives human traits to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
These help to add credit to the author's claim.
What are supporting details or text evidence?
What is typing the word into the dictionary?
What is a conversation between or among characters?
What is Dialogue?
What is an educated decision or guess based on the evidence given?
What is to infer or inference?
This is a strategy to analyze a paired passage.
What is compare and contrast or a Venn diagram?
This type of organizational pattern arranges the topic by time.
What is chronological?
This word tense type shows something has already happened. (ran, jumped, moved)
What is past tense?
What is the main idea or lesson in a play or story?
What is Theme?
This strategy can be used to summarize a story.
What is 'Beginning, Middle, End' OR 'Somebody Wanted But So Then'?
This type of figurative language compares 2 things using 'like' or 'as' and is used to emphasize something.
What is a simile?
These are used to help split up or organize the article into different sections.
What are headings?
When a word has an apostrophe s at the end of it, it means what? ( Ms. Wiseman's)
What is this shows possession of something? (someone owns it)
What are hints found in a passage that helps the reader understand the meaning of unfamiliar words?
What are Context Clues?
What is the reason an author writes? (Think verbs)
What is Author's Purpose- To persuade, Inform, Entertain?
The way the speaker feels and the word choice used in the poem.
What is Tone?
Why are photographs typically included in informational texts?
This renames a noun or gives extra information about the noun. It can be taken out of the sentence, and the sentence would still make sense.
What is an appositive?