Figurative Language
Elements of Plot
Author's Purpose
Text Genre
Grab Bag - Mix
100
A word that sounds like or means the same thing as it's name.
Onomatopoeia
100

Learn setting, meet main characters and find out what the story will be about.

Exposition

100

An argument, exposition, discussion, review or even an advertisement.

Persuade

100

A text that is not true.

Fiction

100
The lesson that you learn. The moral of a story.
Theme
200
Jane sat in awe as the stars danced across the night sky.
Personification
200
The part of a story that reveals or suggests an outcome.
Resolution
200

Turtles lay their eggs on land. Some turtles lay their eggs in sand, then leave the eggs to hatch on their own. When they hatch, the baby turtles scramble down into the water. They have to be quick so that they don't get eaten by larger animals. 

Informative

200

Any nonfiction narrative writing based in the author's personal memories.

Memoir

200
When someone uses what they already know, apply it to an new situation and make an educated guess.
Inference
300
Compares two things using like or as.
Simile
300

Part of a story where the conflict starts to grow. 

Rising Action

300

Procedures

Reports

Explanations 

News article. 

Informative

300

Encyclopedias, magazines, newspapers, school books, cookbooks, etc. 

Informative Text

300

Words that have the same ending sounds. 

Rhyme

400
I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse.
Hyperbole
400
The events and complications begin to resolve themselves. The reader knows what has happened next and if the conflict was resolved or not.
Falling Action
400

One day I was picking blackberries for a pie and a big, hairy bear snuck up behind me. Little Jack Horner sat in a corner eating his Christmas pie...

Entertain

400

Literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm.

Poetry

400

Meaning behind the literal. 

Figurative Language

500

John was an ox as he rolled the boulder up the steep hill.

Simile

500

What is the climax of a story?

The turning point of the story. 

500

The three types of author's purpose

Entertain, Inform, Persuade
500

Text based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history.


Non-fiction

500
When you take a word or statement to mean exactly what is says.
Literal
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