Non-Fiction
Text Features
Reading Strategies
Elements of Fiction Pt 2
Elements of Fiction
Figurative Language
100
One of these is pretty famous in classrooms, his name is Venn

Diagrams

100

Need to get an overview of the reading but don't have a lot of time? Try this reading strategy

Skimming

100

If I say bad things happen to me in autumn, you can assume something bad will happen to me in autumn because I used this element of fiction

Foreshadowing

100

Hogwarts, Gotham City, and Olympus are all this element of fiction

Setting

100

A heart of gold

A couch potato

Time is money

Metaphor

200

You would find words with this format in this section of a non-fiction text

Bears: Pg 2, 5, 7,10, 19

Index

200

Underline, Circle, Notes in the margins

Annotations

200

"Can I go to the corner"

"No Christian, no you can't"

Dialogue

200

An eagle to represent liberty, or a lightning bolt to represent speed, is utilizing this element of fiction

Symbolism

200

Lightning danced across the sky

The camera loves me

The wind was angry that night

Personification

300

Important information, such as book titles, will be written in either bold or italics, otherwise known as these. 

Special Prints

300

Before I read, I need to find my bold terms by using this strategy

Pre-Reading

300

Batman drives down an alley and has visions of his parents death

Flashback

300

Superman clashing with Lex Luthor over the duration of a story could be considered this element of fiction

Conflict

300

Busy as a Bee

Prancing Ponies

Right as Rain

Alliteration

400

The bold words at the top of a section of text

Heading

400

If I figured out that Romeo and Juliet was a tragic love story about dumb teenagers falling in love and taking things way too far, I would've completed this reading strategy

Determine the main idea

400

The prisoners who escaped are violent and dangerous 

Tone

400

Batman is a rich orphan who is 6'2", has a muscular build, has black hair and dark eyes, and is tormented by the death of his parents

This is an example of this element of fiction

Characterization

400

Don't be a scrooge

That is my Achilles heel

Shot with the arrow of love

Allusion

500

If you need to look up what a word means in your non-fiction text, you would go to the back of the book and find this. 

Glossary

500

"Jerry didn't finish his chores even though he had all day to do them. He is such a flubjub."

Using this reading strategy, we can guess that flubjub means a lazy person. 

Context clues

500

I am hopeful she will arrive tomorrow

Mood

500

Belle is a smart girl in an outdated town who goes to a castle to try and rescue her father, but she ends up taking his place and falls in love with the owner of the castle; a hideous beast. 

Plot

500

The air smelled salty

The babies hair is soft to the touch

The keys of the warden clanked as he slammed the cell door


Imagery

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