Text Organization
Refers to the way authors organize information.
What is text structure?
The central topic or message within a story.
What is theme?
These are lines of text used to explain a photograph.
What is a caption?
This is a comparison of two objects using the words like or as between them.
What is a simile?
This is the close similarity in the final sounds of two or more words or lines of writing.
What is rhyme?
This occurs when the author arranges the order of events by time, date, or series of steps.
What is chronological sequence?
To inform, to persuade, or to entertain.
What is author's purpose?
This is the main point that the author is making.
What is the central/main idea?
This is a direct comparison between two objects and does not use the words like or as between them.
What is a metaphor?
The use of stressed and unstressed syllables, which creates what you experience as a pattern of beats in the sound of the words.
What is rhythm?
This is a grouped set of lines which forms the basic units within a poem.
What is a stanza?
Refers to who is telling or narrating a story.
What is point of view?
To point out similarities.
What is compare?
This is the act of giving a non-human object person-like qualities or capabilities.
What is personification?
Words that imitate sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
These interrupt the chronological order of the narrative to take the reader back in time to past events in a character's life.
What are flashbacks?
Using pronouns like I, We, Me, and Us in order to tell a story from the narrator's point of view.
What is first-person point of view?
To point out differences.
What is contrast?
This is an indirect reference in one text to another text, place, historical period, or author.
What is an allusion?
Using the same word or phrase over and over again.
What is repetition?
These are all the components of a story or article that are not the main body of text.
What are text features?
This narrator is all-seeing and all-knowing.
What is third-person omniscient point of view?
The main argument of an essay.
What is a claim?
This is the repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
This is poetry that does not rhyme.
What is free verse?