Poetry
Nonfiction
Fiction
Informational Text
Figurative Language
100

a group of lines in a poem

What is a stanza?

100
writing that is about true stories, people and events.
What is nonficton?
100
the action of the story
what is plot?
100
part of a story that shows what happened in the past
What is flashback?
100
words whose sound suggests their meaning
What is onomatopoeia?
200
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
200
logical guesses you make based on facts you learn from a selection
What is are inferences?
200
narrator who is not a character in a story who describes characters and events
What is third person?
200
a selection arranged in order that makes sense; not necessarily in time order
What is logical order?
200
the use of exaggeration to get the author's point across
What is hyperbole?
300
Words that appeal to a reader's senses
What is imagery?
300
showing how two things are alike and different
What is comparing and contrasting?
300
narrator who tells the story and is a character in the story.
What is first person?
300

titles for paragraphs and sections in a selection

What are subheadings?

300
the giving of human qualities to an animal or inanimate object
What is personfication?
400
the voice that talks to the reader in the poem
What is a speaker?
400
The author's attitude toward's his or her subject.
What is tone?
400
the problem in a story is called a ____________
What is conflict?
400
__________________ give extra information about the topic.
What are sidebars?
400
something that stands for or suggests something else
What is a symbol?
500

the pattern of beats in a poem

What is rhythm?

500
A selection written in time order.
What is chronological order?
500
the message the author sends in a story
What is theme?
500
the author explains history of a topic to help us understand better
What is background information?
500
dialogue written in langauge spoken by people in different regions that helps you hear how they really speak.
What is dialect?
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