Genre
What is Genre?
Discusses/explains events and the results of those events
What is cause and effect?
Giving human characteristics to non-living things
What is personification?
The basic sequence of events in a story that includes the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
What is plot?
An educated guess using text evidence, prior knowledge, and own reasoning.
What is an inference?
Writing that is made up
What is fiction?
Describes a sequence of events or a list of steps.
Bonus: list signal words that give clues to this type of organizational structure
What is chronological order?
Comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
The highest point in the plot where the problem/conflict reaches its peak.
Hints in the text that give meaning to ambiguous or unfamiliar words.
What are context clues?
Writing that utilizes lines and stanzas
What is poetry?
Discusses similarities and differences between two or more things.
What is compare and contrast?
Extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
The element of plot structure that develops the conflict through a series of events to build interest and/or suspense and leads up to the climax.
Analyzing details and information to make a logical guess about what will happen next.
What is a prediction?
Writing that has acts and scenes
What is drama?
Describing what's wrong and giving ways to fix it.
Comparison not using like or as
What is a metaphor?
The opposition (problem) of persons or forces that brings about dramatic action central to the plot of a story.
Similarities and differences between the text and my personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and things happening in the world.
What are making connections?
Writing based on true or real events that has a plot.
What is literary non-fiction?
What is description?
Repetition of beginning sounds in a group of words
What is alliteration?
The sustained interest created by the buildup of events and delayed resolution of the plot’s conflict.
Putting pieces of information together to figure out something not expliciting stated in the text.
What is drawing conclusions?