📚 FICTION
This part of a fiction story tells what happens and includes the beginning, middle, and end.
This is the “music” or beat you hear in a poem.
What is rhythm?
This type of text gives true information about real people, places, or events.
What is nonfiction?
These are the characters' spoken words in a play.
What is dialogue?
If an author writes a recipe to show readers how to make tacos, the author’s purpose is to do this.
What is to inform?
This person in a fiction story faces a problem or challenge.
What is the main character/protagonist?
This type of figurative language uses “like” or “as” to compare two things.
What is a simile?
These help readers understand the text (examples: headings, diagrams, captions).
What are text features
These brackets or italics tell actors how to move or speak.
What are stage directions?
A comic strip that makes readers laugh uses this author’s purpose.
What is to entertain?
This term describes where and when a story takes place.
What is the setting?
These are the lines grouped together in a poem, similar to paragraphs.
What are stanzas?
This nonfiction structure explains the reasons something happens and what results from it.
What is cause and effect?
A major section of a play.
What is an act?
A poster saying “Recycle to Save Our Planet!” is trying to make readers do something. This is the author’s purpose.
What is to persuade?
This is the struggle or problem the characters try to solve.
What is the conflict?
Giving human qualities to something nonhuman.
What is a personification?
This type of nonfiction text compares similarities and differences.
What is compare and contrast?
The smaller parts inside acts.
What are scenes?
An article that explains how space rovers work is written for this purpose.
What is to inform?
This element of fiction is the message or lesson the author wants the reader to learn.
What is the theme?
This is the feeling or atmosphere the poet creates for the reader.
What is mood?
Name all 6 types of Text Structure
1. Compare and Contrast
2. Problem and Solution
3. Chronological Order
4. Sequence
5. Description
6. Cause and Effect
This person writes the script for a play.
Who is the playwright?
A commercial claiming “This new bike is the fastest ever—buy yours today!” is using this purpose.
What is to persuade?