Literary Texts
Informational Texts
Vocabulary
Figuartive Language & Poetry
Writing
100
The location and time in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
100
A list of words and definitions, usually found in the back of an informational text.
What is the glossary?
100
A word that means almost the same thing.
What is a synonym?
100
"The tiny white flowers dotted the morning mountainside like patches of snow" is an example of this.
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
"The stars were candles guiding the weary travelers" is an example of this.
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
The feeling that is created from the words in the text.
What is mood?
300
A passage that is explained in order of when the events happened uses this text structure.
What is chronological order/sequence?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!! This reference lists synonyms for words.
What is a thesaurus?
300
"This cat weights a ton" is an example of this.
What is a hyperbole?
300
This type of writing provides facts and explains something.
What is informational or nonfiction writing?
400
This includes the events that take place in the story.
What is plot?
400
These are words that are either important or vocabulary words.
What are bold words?
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
When human characteristics are given to nonliving things.
What is personification?
400
"What is tonight's homework" is an example of this type of sentence.
What is an interrogative sentence?
500
This is the deeper meaning or the insight the story teaches about life.
What is theme?
500
The paragraph that usually reemphasizes and summarizes the main idea in an informational passage.
What is the last paragraph or conclusion
500
Words that sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings.
What are homophones?
500
"Storm clouds threatened to flood the wheat fields in the Midwestern region" is an example of this.
What is personification?
500
"Because she broke her arm" is an example of this.
What is a fragment (incomplete sentence)?
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