Text Structures
Theme
Poetry
Figurative Language
Punctuation
100

This is a structure that uses words like, features, includes, examples of...

What is description.

100
This is the reason for the intent as to why an author writes something.
What is author's purpose?
100

When you see a number next to a line in poetry that means...

It is the number of the line.

100

This uses like or as to compare two unlike things.

What is simile?

100

The word that separates two independent clauses with a comma is called...

Coordinating conjunction or FANBOYS.

200

This text structure uses words like first, second, finally, before, after, and meanwhile.

What is sequence?

200

Money can't buy happiness is an example of...

What is theme?

200

What is one question you could ask yourself when trying to understand poetry?

What is the subject?

What is the situation?

What is the author's attitude?

200

Todd is my rock - is an example of...

What is metaphor?
200

This separates appositive phrases.

What is a comma?

300

This text structure uses a Venn Diagram as its graphic organizer.

What is compare and contrast.

300

A theme is not a...

What is topic.

300

Pies, pastries, puddings, and cakes is an example of...

What is alliteration?
300

He is a couch potato - is an example of...

What is an idiom?

300

Appositive phrases are also known as...

What are bonus facts in a sentence.

400

This text structure talks about an event and what caused it to occur.

What is cause and effect.

400
A theme is also called a...

What is universal truth? or Moral of the story.

400

Author's use these to make poem sound better when read out loud.

What is literary devices?

400

The flowers danced in the wind - is an example of...

What is personification?
400

An ellipsis looks like this:

Three periods in a row. 
500

This text structure uses words like because, since, issue, resolution, resolved, etc. 

What is problem and solution?
500

Themes are described as...

Lesson the author is trying to teach the reader.

500

Author's of poetry and rappers use this in their work.

What is rhyme?

500
He has kissed a million girls - is an example of...

What is a hyperbole?

500

You can use this instead of parenthesis when giving additional information. 

What is a dash?

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