Literary Text
What do you call where a story takes place?
What is setting?
Professional/serious language vs. Casual/Slang language.
What is formal/informal?
Words like happy, joyful, and excited are examples of this type of word relationship.
What are synonyms?
A sentence that introduces the main idea of a paragraph.
What is topic sentence?
Words with opposite meanings like "hot" and "cold."
What are antonyms?
What do we call the message or lesson the author wants the reader to learn?
What is theme?
A source that is trustworthy, reliable, and expert.
What is credible?
Capital letters are needed at the beginning of sentences and for these types of words.
What are proper nouns?
When an author hints at future events, it is called this.
What is foreshadowing?
The literal, dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
The struggle between opposing forces in a story is called this.
What is conflict?
An author’s opinion or stance on a topic.
What is author's claim?
If a word has a positive or negative feeling attached to it, it has this.
What is connotation?
The part of an essay that restates the main idea and leaves a final thought.
What is a conclusion?
Words that have similar meanings like "angry" and "furious."
What are synonyms?
What is the exposition?
Bold words, pictures, captions, and headings that help a reader.
What are text features?
When an author uses words to help you imagine how something looks, sounds, or feels, they are using this.
What is imagery?
Writing that argues a position using claims and evidence.
What is argumentative writing?
The emotional feeling or "vibe" a word carries.
What is connotation?
How the story is told-whether narrator is in the story or outside of the story (1st or 3rd).
What is point-of-view?
Giving credit to the source where you found your evidence.
What is citing/citation?
When complete sentences have no punctuation to separate them, it is called this.
What is a run-on sentence?
The first paragraph of an essay that often hooks the reader and tells the reader what the essay is about.
What is the introduction?
Hints found within a sentence to help define a mystery word.
What are context clues?