Informational Text
This text feature tells the reader what the section below it will be about.
What is the heading?
What is a stanza?
A list at the beginning of a play showing all the characters and their roles.
What is the cast of characters?
The people, animals, or beings in a story.
What are the characters?
This tool helps you find the meaning, pronunciation, and part of speech of a word.
What is a dictionary?
The definition of main idea.
What is what the text is mostly about?
Words or phrases that appeal to the senses and help the reader picture what is happening.
What is imagery?
The lines spoken by characters.
What is dialogue?
The definition of theme.
What is the message or the lesson in the story?
Clues that help define a word.
The author's purpose of writing an informational text.
What is to inform or explain?
The atmosphere, or emotion, in the poem created by the poet. (How the reader feels.)
What is mood?
Instructions in the script that tell actors how to move, speak, or act. Usually in parentheses.
What are stage directions?
Words or actions that show what a character is like.
What are character traits?
If the prefix un- means “not,” what does the word unhappy mean?
What is not happy?
Name 4 text features you might see in an informational text.
What are headings, subheadings, captions, photographs, table of contents, bold words, glossary, index, sidebar, etc.?
The difference between a simile and a metaphor.
Similes: compare two things using the words "like" or "as"
Metaphors: compare two words by saying that something IS something else
When the scene changes the ______ changes.
What is setting?
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
The difference between synonyms and antonyms
What is synoynms are words with the same meaning and antonyms are words with opposite meanings?
Name 4 text structures, or ways the author organizes information.
What is cause and effect, compare and contrast, sequence, description, and problem and solution?
Giving human traits to nonhuman things, often to create vivid imagery or emotion.
What is personification?
Another word for the main problem in a drama that the characters must solve.
What is the conflict?
Name the 5 parts of plot. (Think of plot mountain!)
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution.
The tool you can use to find synonyms and antonyms of words.
What is a thesaurus?