Poetry
Academic Vocabulary
Nonfiction Text Structures
Winds of Hope
Vocabulary
Potluck
100

A type of figurative language that is a comparison between two things using "like" or "as"?

What is a simile?

100

The most important information in a text or story.

What is main idea?

100

When MCAP asks you to identify the similarities between two or more subjects.

What is compare?

100

A person who reviews or examines something.

What is inspector?

100

Name the three reasons authors write.

What is persuade, inform or explain, and entertain?

200
This type of figurative language is an expression that is exaggerated.
What is hyperbole?
200

Important information

What is key detail?

200

When MCAP asks you to identify the differences between two or more subjects.


What is contrast?

200

A large room where a person gathers for a presentation or performance.

What is auditorium?

200
When you encounter an unknown word and you use the words or phrases surrounding the word that provide hints about the words meaning.
What are context clues?
300
When a poet makes a picture in the readers mind with the words that they chose.
What is visual imagery?
300

The time and place of a story.

What is setting?

300
Charts, tables, webs, and diagrams are all examples of this visual illustration that helps readers understand text.
What is a graphic organizer?
300

To be recorded on film or a computer file.

What is photographed?

300

A writers account of someone else's life.

What is biography?

400
Giving inanimate objects person like qualities is what type of figurative language?
What is personification?
400

A character's thoughts or feelings about something or someone.

What is point of view?

400

When an author organizes information in time order or as the events happened in the story.

What is Chronological or Sequence?

400

To be poor.

What is impoverished?

400
A writers account of his or her own life.
What is an autobiography?
500

What type of figurative language is found in this quote? "Poetry is music for the soul."

What is a metaphor?

500

A message or lesson of a story.

What is theme?

500
Name four text structures or organizational patterns that haven't been used on this quiz?
What is cause and effect, problem/solution, sequence, description, proposition/support
500

To support crops with water through a system of pipes, sprinklers or streams.

What is irrigate?

500
What do you call the main character in a story and what do you call the force working against the main character?
What is the protagonist and antagonist?
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