Literary Texts
Informational Texts
Vocabulary
Figurative Language & Poetry
Writing
100
The location and time in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
100

This text feature allows a reader to see when a word will appear and on what page. 

What is an index?

100
A word that means almost the same thing.
What is a synonym?
100
"The tiny white flowers dotted the morning mountainside like patches of snow" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
100
A piece of writing that tells a story. It has characters, settings, and a plot.
What is a narrative?
200
This is when a character is talking.
What is dialogue?
200
A picture that includes labels of certain parts.
What is a diagram?
200
A word that means the opposite.
What is an antonym?
200
"The stars were candles guiding the weary travelers" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
200
This type of writing convinces the reader to do something or to agree with something.
What is persuasive writing?
300

This is the list of people in a play.

What is the cast of characters?

300

A passage that is explained in order of when the events happened uses this text structure.

What is chronological order or sequence?

300
This text feature can be found at the back of a book with a list of words and their meanings.

What is a glossary?

300
"This cat weights a ton" is an example of this.
What is a hyperbole?
300
This type of writing provides facts and explains something.
What is informational or nonfiction writing?
400

This is where most of the story occurs, and the conflict is developed.

What is the rising action?

400

This text feature can be found above a paragraph and gives a clue as to what the paragraph will be about.

What is a heading?

400
When this is added to the beginning of a root word, it makes a new word and changes the meaning of the word.
What is a prefix?
400
"Storm clouds threatened to flood the wheat fields in the Midwestern region" is an example of this.
What is personification?
400

What is the subject of this sentence? 

Mason went to the park and played on the swing.

What is Mason?

500
This is the moral or the insight the story teaches about life.
What is theme?
500
The paragraph that usually reemphasizes and summarizes the main idea in an informational passage.
What is the last paragraph or conclusion
500
Words that sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings.
What are homophones?
500
"The jet zoomed across the sky" is an example of what kind of figurative language?
What is onomatopoeia?
500

This type of punctuation is required when a character is speaking or a quote is being used.

What are quotation marks?

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