Category 1
This genre consists of fictional characters but real events that happened in the past. ex: The American Revolution
Historical fiction
This tells you what the story is mostly about.
Main idea
This is the most exciting or suspenseful part of a story. Hint: It is the top of the story mountain.
Climax
What literary device gives human qualities to inanimate objects? ex: The flowers danced and swayed to the music of the wind.
Personification
Which text structure compares similarities and differences between two or more topics?
Sequence/Chronological order
Cause and Effect
Compare and Contrast
Description
Compare and Contrast
What is an autobiography?
Story of a person's life written by that person.
What does it mean to summarize information?
Briefly retelling something in your own words.
What do you call a "problem or struggle" the character has with themselves, another character, nature, or society?
Conflict
I had a million things to do! is an example of what literary device?
Hyperbole
Which resource book would help you write a book report on Benjamin Franklin?
Thesaurus
Almanac
Encyclopedia
Dictionary
Encyclopedia
This genre is written in lines and stanzas and can rhyme or no rhyme.
Poetry (Poems)
This is the message or lesson the author is trying to teach you.
Theme or moral
What point of view uses pronouns "I", "Me", "My", and "Mine"?
First person point of view
Information that can be proven true or checked is called a _______?
What resource book can help you find another word similar to friend?
Dictionary
Thesaurus
Atlas
Almanac
Thesaurus
This genre is set in the future or in outer space. Many of the inventions have not yet been invented. It can also include alien life forms.
Science fiction
Where and when a story takes place?
Setting
What do each of the letters in PIE stand for?
P=
I=
E=
P=Persuade
I=Inform
E=Entertain
Information that may be true but can't be proved or checked is an ________________. It's usually what a person thinks or feels.
What is the difference between and synonym and an antonym?
A synonym are words that are similar or the same.
An antonym is the opposite of a word.
This genre includes long or short plays. They are performed by actors.
What is an inference?
An educated guess based on information you are given.
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
Similes compare using like or as.
Metaphors compare by saying one thing is the other. (directly)
What type of text structure presents information in order or gives step-by-step directions?
Cause and Effect
Problem and Solution
Compare and Contrast
Sequence/Chronological Order
Sequence/Chronological order
All sources used by an author when writing a research paper would be listed in alphabetical order using which of the following reference features?
citation
footnotes
bibliography
Bibliography