Text Structure
Road bicyclists are usually light and meant to be used on pavement, while mountain bikes are heavier and meant for riding on dirt trails.
What is COMPARE and CONTRAST?
The assistant was as busy as a bee when she was preparing the podium for the presidential address.
The United States enjoyed a period of economic growth and prosperity in the 1950s when the average American family had 30% more wealth than after World War II.
What does the word economic mean?
What is HAVING TO DO WITH MONEY / THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM?
This is found in the back of a book, and has definitions for unknown words.
What is the GLOSSARY?
This is considered the message that the author wants the reader to understand.
What is THEME?
If you have trouble falling asleep at night, try avoiding technology like TVs, tablets, and video games an hour before your bedtime; this might help you fall asleep more easily.
What is PROBLEM and SOLUTION?
Love is a battlefield.
What is a METAPHOR?
Margaret had ambivalent feelings towards attending the concert. She knew she would enjoy the weather, but she didn't really want to go out in the rain.
What does ambivalent mean?
What is MIXED feelings?
A picture with labels that is found in a non-fiction text is called this.
What is a DIAGRAM?
This is how the author or character's view the world.
What is PERSPECTIVE?
After a law went into place that gave a huge tax break to companies that did their filming in Georgia, many Hollywood producers moved their movie sets to Georgia.
What is CAUSE and EFFECT?
I have told you a million times to wash the dishes.
What is HYPERBOLE?
Many people say I am very different from my twin sister. She is reticent, while I am very friendly and outgoing.
What is the meaning of reticent?
What is SHY ?
The label/description that is usually found underneath a photograph in a text is called this
What is CAPTION?
This is when you take what the text says and what you know and make an educated guess about what is going on in a text.
What is an INFERENCE?
The Nile River in Africa is over 4,000 miles long and it flows north into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is DESCRIPTION?
The car brakes screamed all through the journey.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
Down the frozen waterway toiled a string of wolfish dogs. As they worked, their bristly fur was rimed with frost. A leather harness was on the dogs. It attached them to a sled which dragged along behind.
What does toiled mean?
What is WORK HARD?
A literary text explaining a useful truth, sometimes animals speak as humans; legendary, supernatural tale.
What is a FABLE?
This is what a text is mostly about. Usually, it is the key point that the author wants the reader to remember. The details in a text support, prove, or show it.
What is the CENTRAL IDEA?
The author wrote many famous books. In 1937, they wrote their first book. When the author died in 1960, they stopped printing copies of it. In 1978 the book was reprinted.
What is CHRONOLOGICAL?
The alarm clock buzzed at the time I was going to the bathroom.
What is ONOMATOPOEIA?
Regina remembered when she had just two pairs of shoes. Now, her closet holds a plethora of shoes in almost every color and every style.
What does the word plethora mean?
What is A LOT / GREAT QUANTITY?
Legend or traditional narrative, often based in part on historical events, that reveals human behavior and natural phenomena by its symbolism; often pertaining to the actions of the gods.
WORTH DOUBLE POINTS IF YOU GET BOTH CORRECT!
How do you summarize a literary text, and how should you summarize a non-fiction text?
What are:
SOMEBODY, WANTED, BUT, SO, THEN
WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY, HOW