Genres
A text written to inform readers about a real topic.
a. biography
b. informational text
c. argumentative text
What is informational text ?
Instructions that tell actors how to move, speak, or act.(Usually in parentheses)
a. character tags
b. stage directions
c. dialogue
What are stage directions?
“Crash! The dishes tumbled to the floor as the door slammed shut.”
a. onomatopoeia
b. adjective
c. personification
What is an onomatopoeia ?
The most important point the author wants readers to understand.
a. supporting details
b main idea
c.character traits
What is the main idea?
This is the part of the story where the characters and setting are introduced.
a.resolution
b.plot
c. exposition
What is Exposition?
A story that is made up but takes place during a real time in history.
a. entertainment
b. fairytale
c. historical fiction
What is historical fiction?
The name written before a character’s lines in a play.
a. character tags
b. list of characters
c. plot elements
What is a character tag?
My backpack weighs a ton.
a. assonance
b. hyperbole
c. metaphor
What is a hyperbole?
A short explanation of a text that includes the main idea and key details but leaves out small, unimportant information.
a. extended constructed response
b. research paper
c. summary
What is a summary?
This part of the story includes events that build suspense and lead up to the big problem.
a.inferencing
b.rising action
c.sequencing
What is Rising Action?
A traditional story passed down through generations that often explains something in nature or history.
a.legend
b.drama
c. poetry
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.
a. allitteration
b. idiom
c. hyperbole
What is alliteration?
The lesson or message the reader learns from a story.
a. theme
b. vibes
c. inference
What is a theme?
This is the most exciting part of the story where the main problem reaches its highest point.
a. climax
b.livestream
c. solution
What is a climax?
A true story about a real person’s life written by someone else.
a. autobiography
b. newspaper
c. biography
What is a biography?
When the characters are speaking to each other?
a. stage directions
b. actions
c.dialogue
What is dialogue?
“Her brain is a computer.”
a. simile
b. metaphor
c.onomatopoeia
What is a metaphor?
Using clues from the text and your background knowledge to figure out something that is not directly stated.
a. context clues
b. inference
c. examples
What is an inference?
This part of the story shows how the problem starts to get solved after the climax.
a. conflict
b. falling action
c. resolution
What is falling action ?
A text that includes rhythm, rhyme, or figurative language.
a.sitcom
b. rap
c. poetry
What is poetry?
A smaller part of an act.
a. stage
b. scene
c. lights
What is a scene?
The jealous wind shoved the trees aside and howled at the lonely moon.
a. metaphor
b. personification
c.similie
What is personification?
A character hides their report card and avoids eye contact with their parents. The reader can conclude the character feels this.
a. nervous, guilty,or worried
b. happy
c. shy
What is nervous, guilty, or worried?
This is the end of the story where loose ends are tied up and the conflict is resolved.
a.resolution
b.rising action.
c. turning point
What is a resolution?