Text Structures
Describes someone or something
What is description?
Uses words like you
What is second person point of view?
When the author tells their own life story
What is an autobiography?
A passage of a book written in another book
What is an excerpt?
Usually begins with overall or in conclusion
What is a conclusion?
When a text tells you everything from the beginning to the end
What is order and sequence?
Uses words like me, my, I
What is first person point of view?
What is historical fiction?
An abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as another word. (Examples: OMG, LOL)
What is an acronym?
Should always include the authors name and title of the book/article.
What is an introduction?
Displays the differences and similarities between two things
What is compare and contrast?
When the reader knows what is going on only inside the main characters head
What is third person limited?
The movies Shrek, Rapunzel, and The Little Mermaid are an example of...
What is a fairytale?
Language that includes figures of speech like similes and metaphors.
What is figurative language?
First, next, then, last, finally, also are examples of this
What are transition words?
Tells what goes wrong and how it is solved or fixed
What is problem and solution?
When a reader knows everything that every character is thinking (narrator is all-knowing)
What is third person omniscient?
Tells you about something or how to do something. Is non-fiction.
What is informational writing?
When the author gives the reader a hint about what is going to happen next?
What is foreshadowing?
One detail, another detail, my next piece of evidence, a third point are all examples of this.
Explains why something happened and what happened
What is cause and effect?
The Dursleys hadn’t even remembered that today happened to be Harry’s twelfth birthday. Of course, his hopes hadn’t been high; they’d never given him a real present, let alone a cake – but to ignore it completely… (which POV is this?)
What is third person omniscient?
Examples of this are Star Wars, Star Trek, and Guardians of the Galaxy.
What is science fiction?
Information that runs along the top of the page
What is a header?
The text states, "......."
or
One piece of evidence from the text to support this is, "........"
What is a text evidence/quotes from the text?