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What is Author's Purpose?
Author's Purpose is the REASON the author wrote the text.
Some common purposes are: to inform, entertain, instruct, persuade, and explain
What is a Character?
A character is the person or animals in a story.
What is a metaphor?
Comparing 2 things using the words is or are. Saying that something IS something else.
Example: This classroom is a zoo!
What is rhymed verse?
Rhymed verse poems lines that end in words that rhyme.
What does develop mean?
Develop means to create over the course of the text.
What is Author's Claim?
Author's claim is the what the author is trying to prove. It is the author's opinion backed up with reasons and evidence!
What makes up the plot in a story?
Plot is made up of the characters, setting, and events in a story.
What is a simile?
Comparing something using "like" or "as"
Example: He ran as fast as a cheetah!
What is a haiku?
A haiku is a poem about nature with 3 lines and a 5-7-5 syllable pattern.
What does contribute mean?
Contribute means to add to something
What is Central Idea?
Central Idea is what the text is mostly about. It is a complete sentence and has 2 parts: the topic, and what the author wants you to know about the topic.
What is theme?
Theme is the lesson the reader or the character learns from the story.
What is personification?
Personification is giving human qualities to non-human things.
Example: The shoes at the store screamed my name.
What is a limerick?
A limerick is a silly poem with 5 lines and an AABBA rhyme scheme.
What does purpose mean?
Purpose means the reason something is done or included
What are the 3 Text Structures you learned about this year?
Chronology
Cause and Effect
Comparison
How do you figure out a character's perspective?
You think about what they SAY, THINK, and DO!
What is an idiom?
An idiom is a common saying that means something different than it says.
For example: It is raining cats and dogs.
What is a free verse poem?
A free verse poem does not follow a set of rules and does not rhyme.
Support means using information of evidence to show that something is true.
Name 3 different text features.
Possible answers include: headings, captions, photograph, diagram, chart, map, graph, bold words
What 2 parts make up the setting of a story?
WHERE it happens and WHEN it happens
What is alliteration?
Alliteration is when several words in a row start with the same sound.
For example: Six slippery snakes slid by.
What is the difference between a stanza and a line?
A line is a single line of text in a poem. A stanza is a group of lines in a poem.
What is a phrase?
A phrase is a group of words that tell one idea