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The genre of writing/reading that is true, with real life facts.
What is Non-fiction?
This is the part of a paragraph that tells the reader what the rest of the paragraph will be about.
What is the Topic Sentence?
What are the small paragraphs in a poem called?
What is a stanza?
What is the pivotal moment in the story called (usually with very strong emotion)
What is the Climax
The location and time of a story
What is the setting?
What is the actual definition of a word?
Denotation
This is a retell of a story/article that is only the most important parts of the story/article in your own words.
What is the summary?
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
What is first person?
Extra information added to a sentence; this can be taken out and the meaning of the sentence does not change.
Non- restrictive element
A genre of writing/reading that is made-up, for entertaining, fake
What is fiction?
What is the word used to describe how the words and the word choice make the book have a certain feel to it?
What is tone or mood?
What are Quotation Marks?
The piece of the word that is added to FRONT of root word that changes the meaning of the entire word.
What is prefix?
What is each individual sentence in a poem called?
What is a line?
This is the moral or the deeper meaning of the story? This usually can't be identified until you make a lot of connections and finish the book from beginning to end.
What is the theme?
What the story/text/article is MOSTLY about?
What is Main Idea?
This type of writing can be fiction or non-fiction, but is usually written as a story with characters, setting, a plot, and descriptive details.
What is narrative writing?
The figurative or emotional feeling associated with something is ____________.
Connotation
Prediction or clues about what is to come later in a story
Foreshadowing
A series of events in a story, starting with the setting and characters and ending with the resolution
What is Plot?
This type of text/story is an account of a person's life written by that person.
What is autobiography?
What is it called when you try and get your readers attention right away?
a conclusion reached on the basis of text evidence and your background knowledge.
What is an inference?
Pronouns that end with self; selves
Intensive pronouns
a short piece of the whole text
What is an excerpt