Text Structures
The following text uses this text structure: The middle school soccer team had practiced and played hard all season long. The coach really wanted the team to win the state championship game. Finally, the day of the big game arrived. The team played their best, and they won the championship by one goal!
Chronological
The type of stanza that consists of four lines is:
A quatrain
Subjective or objective?
Many scientists believe that we could live and work on Mars within the next 20 years.
Objective
A scene from an earlier time in the story that interrupts the flow of the narrative.
Flashback
The event that starts the conflict and sets the plot in motion is the:
Initiating event
The following signal words indicate this text structure:
because of, since, as a result of
Cause and effect
A poem that consists of three lines following the syllable rule of 5-7-5 is a:
Haiku
To highlight, underline, and write notes on a text is to make:
Annotations
A story in which the narrator is a character in the story is told in this point of view
First person
Nick is angry at Mrs. Richardson because she knows that he can't be in the hallway with certain students.
This sentence uses a ___________ point of view.
Third person ominscient.
Directions for building a birdhouse are an example of this text structure:
Sequential
In the following quote, "I'm papering walls in the loo/ And quite frankly I haven't a clue;", the / shows a:
Line change
The title, subtitle, and headings of a text can all be used to help find the _______ of a text.
The main idea
The following text uses this point of view:
Harry walks into the room just as everyone begins to cheer. Horrified, he sinks into his seat.
Third person-limited
The main idea of the video "Boundin'" is:
The following text uses this text structure:
The continent measures 3,300 miles at its widest point, from St. John's, Newfoundland, to the Pacific Coast. From Alaska to Mexico, the continent extends 4,900 miles. Europe is made up of many small nations. Unlike it, North America is composed of only three large nations: Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
Compare and contrast
An elderly man called Keith
Mislaid his set of false teeth-
They'd been laid on a chair,
He'd forgot they were there,
Sat down, and was bitten beneath.
This poem is an example of a:
Limerick
A note at the bottom of a nonfiction text providing citations or additional information is a:
Footnote
Hide and seek is to game as _____________ is to jewelry.
Multiple correct answers
In an episode of the show Drake and Josh, the protagonists Drake and Josh attempt to take two girls on a date to the movies. Meanwhile, their sister Megan works to program a computer to give her any snacks she wants.
Megan's storyline is an example of a:
Subplot
The following text uses this text structure:
Magnet schools offer special facilities and programs that promote educational excellence in a particular field. A similar school choice strategy involves charter schools that are public schools that are given more freedom to try out new policies and programs.
Description (Generalization)
The rhyme scheme of a sonnet is:
ABABCDCDEFEFGG
Jeremy is writing an essay about why schools should have better lunches. His three body paragraphs are going to be about the nutrition of average restaurants, cost, and student preference.
Which paragraph is not relevant?
The nutrition of average restaurants
Humid, muggy, and tropical all of the same:
Denotation
The tone of the following stanza is:
I wish there were some wonderful place
Called the Land of Beginning Again,
Where all our mistakes and all our heartaches,
And all our poor, selfish grieves
Could be dropped, like a shabby old coat, at the door,
And never put on again.
Hopeful, wishful