Literary Texts
Informational Texts
Vocabulary
Figurative Language & Poetry
Writing
100
The location and time in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
100

This is the central point the author is trying to make in an informational text

What is the main idea?

100
A word that means almost the same thing.
What is a synonym?
100

"Her smile was as bright as the sun"

What is a simile?

100
A piece of writing that tells a story. It has characters, settings, and a plot.
What is a narrative?
200
This is when a character is talking.
What is dialogue?
200

A picture that includes labels of certain parts.

What is a diagram?

200
A word that means the opposite.
What is an antonym?
200

"Time is a thief "

What is a metaphor?

200
This type of writing convinces the reader to do something or to agree with something.
What is persuasive writing?
300
This is the list of people in a play.
What is the cast of characters?
300
A passage that is explained in order of when the events happened uses this text structure.
What is chronological order?
300
This reference lists synonyms for words.
What is a thesaurus?
300

""Hit the nail on the head "

What is a idiom?

300
This type of writing provides facts and explains something.
What is informational or nonfiction writing?
400
This is the part of the story when the suspense peaks.
What is the climax?
400
This is at the end of an article and it lists the sources the author used to write the passage. Is it: 1. Biography 2. Autobiography 3. Bibliography
What is a bibliography?
400
When this is added to the beginning of a root word, it makes a new word and changes the meaning of the word.
What is a prefix?
400
"Storm clouds threatened to flood the wheat fields in the Midwestern region" is an example of this.
What is personification?
400

"After we went outside, we ate lunch." The beginning of this sentence is an example of what?

What is an introductory clause?
500
This is the moral or the insight the story teaches about life.
What is theme?
500

what is the difference between main idea and theme?

What is main idea is the central message and theme is the lesson

500
Words that sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings.
What are homophones?
500
"The jet zoomed across the sky" is an example of what kind of figurative language?
What is onomatopoeia?
500
Sally walked through the door as the class applauded. What is the preposition in this sentence?
What is "through?"
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