Genres
A text written to inform readers about a real topic.
What is informational text ?
Instructions that tell actors how to move, speak, or act.(Usually in parentheses)
What are stage directions?
The leaves danced in the breeze.
What is personification?
The most important point the author wants readers to understand.
What is the main idea?
A story that is made up but takes place during a real time in history.
What is historical fiction?
The name written before a character’s lines in a play.
What is a character tag?
My backpack weighs a ton.
What is a hyperbole?
A short explanation of a text that includes the main idea and key details but leaves out small, unimportant information.
What is a summary?
A traditional story passed down through generations that often explains something in nature or history
What is a legend?
True or False
Plays are meant to be performed in front of an audience.
True
Tommy took ten tiny turtles to Texas.
What is alliteration?
The lesson or message the reader learns from a story.
What is a theme?
A true story about a real person’s life written by someone else.
What is a biography?
When the characters are speaking to each other?
What is dialogue?
“Her brain is a computer.”
What is a metaphor?
Using clues from the text and your background knowledge to figure out something that is not directly stated.
What is an inference?
A text that includes rhythm, rhyme, or figurative language.
What is poetry?
A smaller part of an act.
What is a scene?
“Boom! The thunder shook the windows.”
What is an onomatopoeia?
A character hides their report card and avoids eye contact with their parents. The reader can conclude the character feels this.
What is nervous, guilty, or worried?