What a story, article, poem, or paragraph is mostly about.
What is a main or central idea.
An affix added to the beginning of a root or root word to make a new word with a new meaning.
What is a prefix?
Mini-dictionary at the end of a book in which each boldface word is defined.
What is a glossary?
Dark type used to emphasize important words.
What is bold-face words?
A story about something that did not really happen.
What is fiction?
The similarities and differences in a piece of literature.
What is compare and contrast?
A word meaning, "to forsake or leave behind."
What is abandon?
Pieces of information that tell more about the main idea.
What is a supporting detail?
A word meaning, "to imitate, especially for satirical effect."
What is mimic?
An article titled "The History of Pizza" would fall into this category.
What is nonfiction?
This is the part of a story where the conflict is developed. The story starts to "get good." For example, Roy lets Mullet Fingers use his name at the hospital when he has an infected dog bite.
What is the "rising action"?
The relationship between events or things, where one is the result of the other or others.
What is cause and effect?
Details that surround a word to help the reader figure out what the word means or how it is used in a particular passage?
What is a context clue?
A word meaning, "to undergo development or change."
What is evolve?
A hint about something that will happen later in the story.
If I had a poem and asked, "How does the last stanza contribute to the development of the plot? -- what do I mean by "contribute to the development of the plot"?
What is what does that part of the story do for the overall story?
A phrase or expression in which words do not mean exactly what they say. A colorful way of saying something.
What is an idiom?
People, places, things, or ideas.
What is a noun?
A word meaning, "involving risk or danger."
What is hazardous?
A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
What is a stanza?
A conclusion or opinion that is formed using known facts, and details of a story.
What is inference?
A word meaning, "a feeling of deep regret, usually for some misdeed."
What is remorse?
The use of human characteristics to describe animals, things, or ideas.
What is personification?
A word meaning, "related to a city or densely populated area."
What is urban?
Name the text structure: At first, the small fish asked the whale if he had ever tasted man. Then, the small fish sent the whale to where the man was on a raft. Next, the whale ate the man. Following that, the man made a grate out of his raft. Finally, the man returned home safely.
What is chronological order or sequential events?