Informative Text Structures
Figurative Language
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Narrative Text Structures
100
Some of the students in room 52 were upset because they never got to use the balls and jump ropes at recess. Another group of kids always got them first and they refused to share. When Mrs. Kelly found out what was going on, she developed a rotation system so that everyone would have a chance to use the equipment.

What is problem and solution?                    

Definition: A text structure in which an author explains a problem and how it was solved 

100
Identify the type of figurative language. John's answer to the problem was just a Band-Aid, not a solution"
What is a metaphor? 

Definition: A comparison in which one thing is said to be another. 

100
A fact, statement, quote, or event that backs up a key idea.
What is supporting detail? 
100
A genre of nonfiction in which the story is about one's life.
What is an autobiography? 
100
The _________ is the structure of a story that establishes the order of events and how the events in the story are interrelated.
What is the plot? 
200

Identify the text structure used in the paragraph. 

Beagles are medium-sized members of the hound family. Beagles make good pets because they are intelligent, good-natured, and good with children. Beagles are also quite playful and need a great deal of exercise. 

What is a description?

Definition: a text structure in which an author tells about a topic and its characteristics with details and adjectives. 

200
The formation of use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
What is onomatopoeia? 

Example: Juan had a hard time hearing the teacher over his grumbling stomach.

200
Concludes the action ending the story with the conflicts or problems are solved.
What is the resolution? 
200
words or expressions used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are different from the literal interpretation.
What is figurative language? 
200
The "voice" of a work; the narrator's perspective.
What is the point of view? 
300
Moths and butterflies often look similar. Both have large wings and long, thin bodies, and both start their lives as caterpillars. However, butterflies usually have brighter colors on their wings than moths. Also, butterflies are most active during the day, while moths are generally creatures of the night.
What is compare and contrast? 

Definition: A text structure in which an author explains how topics are similar and different

300
Identify the figurative language: The thunder clapped angrily in the distance.
What is personification?

Definition: An author attributes human characteristics to something nonhuman or an object. 

300
A written conversation between two or more characters and identifiable by quotation marks.
What is dialogue? 
300
(1) Text or books that are about real things, people, events, and places are considered _____________. (2) A ____________ is an imaginary story with the purpose of entertaining the reader by including events and people that are not based on facts.
What are (1) nonfiction and (2) fiction?
300
The author's underlying message in a piece of fiction. A universal message.
What is theme?
400
Identify the text structure used in the paragraph? President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. He graduated from high school in 1979. After attending college at Harvard, he married Michelle Robinson in 1992. Obama became an Illinois senator in 1997 and on January 20, 2009, he became the 44th president of the United States of America.
What is a sequence? 

Definition: A text structure in which authors tell about events in the order they happened. 

400
Identify the figurative language: "Her hair was as soft as a spider web"
What is a simile?

Definition: A comparison of two things using words "like or as" 

400
An important turning point in a series of actions, or the most forceful event in a story.
What is the climax? 
400
a type of nonfiction that teaches the reader about a topic related to the natural world of society.
What is informational text? 
400
An essential trait of a story that helps the reader understand the time period and the location of the events described.
What is setting?
500
An earthquake that occurs under the ocean may cause a tsunami. A tsunami is a series of giant waves that can cause a great deal of destruction, as well as many deaths when it hits the coast. So if you are ever at the beach and hear a tsunami warning siren, you should run to higher ground as fast as you can.
What are cause and effect?

Definition: A text structure in which an author explains how something happened and describes the consequences of the event. 

500
Identify the figurative language: "Alice's aunt ate apples and acorns around August."
What is alliteration?

Definition: the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of a sequence of words.

500
A reflection of a writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject of a poem, story, or other literary work
What is tone? 
500
Identify the two types of characterization. (1) __________________ the writer makes direct states about a character's personality and tells the reader what the character is like. (2)________________ the writer reveals information about the character through their words, actions, and thoughts.
What is (1) direct characterization and (2) indirect characterization? 
500
A _________character in a story is described as simple and only shows one trait, a __________character is described complex and shows many different characteristics; where as, a ___________character does not change through out the text.
What is flat, round, and static? 
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