Characteristics of Genres
Literary Elements
Genres
Strategies
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

A text with a plot

What is fiction

100

Used to analyze the character(s) in a story

What is FAST

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 includes stage directions and dialogue

What is a drama

200

You do this as you read to help you comprehend the text

What is annotate

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 organizational pattern

300
The perspective from which a story is told
What is point of view
300
When reading this genre, you should look for the overall meaning

What is poetry

300

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

What is coding the questions

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

Text that explains, describes or informs

What is expository/informational

400

This is used to analyze a fictional summary

What is SWBST

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 main idea

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

This genre includes biographies, auto-biographies and memoirs

What is literary non-fiction

500

This is used to analyze an informational summary

What is a PICOL

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