Characteristics of Genres
Literary Elements
Strategies
Genres
Potpourri
100
Words or instructions in a play that are written in italics and enclosed by parenthesis
What are stage directions
100
The message or lesson of a story
What is theme
100

The strategy used for learning about characters in a text

What is FAST

100

A text with a plot

What is fiction

100

The reason the author writes a text

What is author's purpose

200
In a play, the conversation between characters; it advances the plot and reveals conflict.
What is dialogue
200
The use of clues by an author that suggest events that have yet to occur
What is foreshadowing
200

This strategy is used to determine in what order to answer the questions

What is Coding

200
Includes stage directions and dialogue
What is drama
200

When a character remembers an event from their past

What is flashback

300

The way that a text is organized or structured

What is the organizational pattern

300
The perspective from which a story is told
What is point of view
300

This is the process of writing notes for yourself as you read

What is annotation

300

When reading this genre, you should look for the overall meaning

What is poetry

300
Describing a text's main idea, important details, and overall meaning in just a few sentences.
What is summarizing
400

Title, pictures, graphs, charts, captions, sub-headings

What are text features

400
A struggle between two opposing forces
What is conflict
400

This is the strategy to evaluate a summary in an informational text

What is PICOL

400
Text that explains, describes, or informs
What is expository
400

A statement that can be proven to be true

What is a fact

500

What a paragraph or entire text is mostly about

What is the main idea

500
The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
What is mood
500

This is the acronym used for analyzing a summary in a fictional text

What is SWBST

500

This genre includes biographies, autobiographies and memoirs

What is literary non-fiction

500
Words, phrases, or sentences around a word that help determine an unknown word's meaning
What are context clues
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