Literary Elements
This is the time and place in which the story happens.
What is the setting?
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
This feature give a name to a section and tells what the main idea of it will be.
What is a heading?
This text structure describes a topic by giving details features and characteristics.
What is description?
This part of the sentence tells "who" or "what" the sentence is about.
What is the subject?
These are the people, animals or creatures who take part in the story.
Who are the characters?
A comparison that says one thing is another thing, without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
This feature is found under a picture, giving information that is not found in the body of the text.
What is a caption?
This text structure tells how things happen in time order.
What is chronology?
This part of the sentence tells what the subject does or is.
What is the predicate?
This is the main problem or struggle in the story.
What is the conflict?
When an object or animal is given human-like qualities.
What is personification?
This text feature shows information visually, using bars, lines or pictures often to compare data.
What is a graph or chart?
This text structure begins by introducing a problem and the providing a solution to that problem.
What is problem/solution?
This kind of sentence has a subject, predicate, and expresses a complete thought.
What is a complete sentence?
This is the message, lesson or moral the author wants the reader to take away from the story.
What is the theme?
A phrase that means something different from its literal meaning.
What is an idiom?
This text feature is found at the end of a non-fiction book, and lists key terms and definitions.
What is a glossary?
This text structure tells how things are alike and different.
What is compare/contrast?
This type of sentence has only a subject or a predicate and does not express a complete thought.
What is a fragment?
This is the sequence of event in the story, including the introduction, rising action, and resolution.
What is the plot?
The use of words that appeal to the senses to help readers hear, see, feel, etc. what is happening.
What is imagery?
This text feature is at the beginning of a book, and helps readers find specific information by listing topics and page numbers.
What is a table of contents?
This text structure tells why something happens and what happens because of it.
What is cause and effect?
In the sentence "The excited students ran into the classroom" this is the subject and this is the predicate.
What is "The excited students" for the subject and "ran into the classroom" for the predicate?