Genres & Literary Elements
A type of story that includes magical creatures, talking animals, or supernatural events.
What is a Fantasy?
A word that modifies a noun.
What is an Adjective?
Making an educated guess based on clues from the text and prior knowledge.
What is an Inference?
A comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as."
What is a Simile?
A text structure that explains similarities and differences between two things.
What is Compare and Contrast?
The time and place in which a story occurs.
What is a Setting?
A word that shows action or a state of being.
What is a Verb?
The ability to retell the most important details from a text in a short form.
What is Summarizing?
An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally.
What is Hyperbole?
A text feature that provides additional information at the bottom of the page.
What is a Footnote?
The message or lesson the author wants to convey in a story.
What is a Theme?
A punctuation mark used to indicate possession or a contraction.
What is an Apostrophe?
A strategy where a reader uses context clues to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
What is Using Context Clues?
A word that imitates a sound, such as "buzz" or "sizzle."
What is Onomatopoeia?
A brief description of an image or graphic in a text.
What is a Caption?
A struggle between opposing forces in a story.
What is a Conflict?
A word that connects words, phrases and clause.
What is a Conjunction?
Identify how one event leads to another in a text.
What is Cause and Effect?
A figure of speech in which an object or idea is given human characteristics.
What is Personification?
A section at the end of a book that lists sources used by the author.
What is a Bibliography?
A story that is based on real events but may include fictional elements.
What is Historical Fiction?
A type of sentence that gives a command or makes a request.
What is an Imperative Sentence?
The reason an author writes a text - to persuade, inform, or entertain.
What is the Author's Purpose?
A reference to a well- known person, place, event, or work of literature.
What is an Allusion? (Not Illusion)
A text structure that presents events in the order they happened.
What is Chronological Order?