Text Features
Hints at or provides the topic of the selection
What is a title?
What is a resolution?
The person telling the story.
What is a narrator?
The moral or life lesson the author wants the reader to learn.
What is a theme?
Prewrite, Draft, Revise, Edit, Final Draft
What is the writing process?
States the main idea of a new section.
What is a heading?
Provides important background information about the character and setting.
What is an exposition?
The narrator is a character in the story and uses pronouns I, us, and we.
What is first-person point of view?
Hints about events that will occur later as the plot develops.
What is foreshadowing?
Tells what the entire paragraph will be about. Names it, verbs it, tells it.
What is a topic sentence?
Adds a teaser or a prompt to make you want to read the selection.
What is a subtitle?
Provides the main conflict.
What is the rising action?
The narrator is not a character in the story and knows the thoughts and feelings of one character.
What is third person limited point of view?
The growing feeling of tension or excitement as the story develops.
What is suspense?
The formula for writing.
Topic sentence, Key point, Elaboration, Supporting Quote, Tie back, Closing sentence.
What is structure?
Further organizes and breaks down information within a section.
What is a subheading?
The most exciting moment and the turning point.
How a writer chooses to tell a story.
What is point of view?
A character's struggle to make a decision based on feelings or emotions.
What is an internal conflict?
What is a supporting quote?
Organize and call attention to important information.
What is the purpose of text features.
All the events in a story, centered around the main conflict.
What is a plot?
The narrator is not a character in the story and knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters.
What is third person omniscient point of view?
The narrator describes the character directly or their physical appearance, the character's own words, thoughts, and actions, and other character's reactions to the character.
What are the methods of characterization?
Answers why or how about the topic sentence.
What is the key point?