Poetry
What do we call a group of lines separated by a line break?
What is....a stanza.
What do we call the actors in a drama?
What are....characters.
Which genre tells a story through the words and actions of characters? It has acts, scenes, and stage directions.
What is....a drama.
Which reading skill are you using if you need to identify what happened in the beginning, middle, and end of a selection?
What is....summarizing.
What is another name for a passage or article?
What is....a selection.
Which type of poem does not rhyme?
What is....a free verse poem.
What is it called when the script tells the actors what to do? (Hint: This tells the actors how to move and/or how to speak. They are usually in parenthesis.)
What are....stage directions.
Which genre has characters, a setting, and a plot?
What is....fiction.
Which skill are you using if you have to order events in chronological order?
What is....sequencing.
What is the central message of a passage? (Hint: What the author wants you to learn; the moral)
What is....the theme.
Which type of poem contains characters, a problem, and a solution? (Hint: It tells a story)
What is....a narrative poem.
A drama can be broken up into _____ or ______.
What are....scenes and acts.
Which genre has stanzas and figurative language?
What is....poetry.
Which skill are you using if you have to locate text clues and use background knowledge to form an educated guess?
What is....inferencing.
What do we call words or text features in a passage that help you to prove your answer?
What is....text evidence.
What do we call a poem that is full of emotion and contains a musical quality in its sounds and rhythms?
What is....a lyrical poem.
What do we call the time and location where the play takes place?
What is....the setting.
Which genre has text features such as photographs, charts, bold print, and headings?
Which skill are you using if you have to locate pronouns (I, me, you) to determine who is speaking?
What is....point of view.
What do we call a combination of two selections with three sets of questions?
What is....a paired passage.
What do we call the pattern of rhyme, line by line, in a poem?
What is....rhyme scheme.
What do we call the lines that are spoken between characters?
What is....dialogue.
True or False? Realistic fiction stories are based on real events, but have made up characters.
Which skill are you using if you have to examine a character's feelings, actions, sayings, and thoughts?
What is....character analysis.
What do nonfiction passages have that help us understand the main ideas of particular sections in the reading?
What are....headings.