Visual Elements
Categories of Picture Books
Forms of Poetry
Qualities of Books
Types of Characters
100
Either curved or straight, varies in thickness or length, and runs either horizontally, diagonally, or vertically.
What is a Line?
100
Teach and reinforce the letters of the alphabet.
What is ABC Books?
100
Melodic or songlike.
What is Lyric Poems?
100
The art or photography in a book that can strengthen and extend the content beyond the words.
What is Illustrations?
100
Multidimensional, we know a great deal about this character.
What is Round?
200
A two-dimensional form representing an object that can be simple or complex.
What is Shape?
200
Help children learn the basic numbers and give them practice counting, typically from 1 to 10.
What is Counting?
200
Tell stories.
What is Narrative Poems?
200
The story's central idea.
What is Theme?
200
Readers know little about this character.
What is Flat?
300
A visual element with traits hue, value, and saturation.
What is Color?
300
Introduce single, focused concepts to young children.
What is Concept Books?
300
Unrhymed and lacks a consistent rhythm.
What is Free Verse?
300
Position taken by the narrator.
What is Point of View?
300
Character that creates major conflict in the story.
What is Antagonist?
400
A tactile impression communicated by the artist; rough, smooth, hard, soft, and so on.
What is Texture?
400
A current trend in children's literature.
What is Graphic Novels?
400
Total of 17 syllables (a line of 5 syllables, a line of 7 syllables, and a line of 5 syllables).
What is Haiku?
400
The author's attitude toward the subject or audience in a particular book.
What is Tone?
400
Character that changes over the course of the story.
What is Dynamic?
500
Serves to unify all of the elements in an illustration.
What is Composition?
500
Repeated language patterns, story patterns, or other familiar sequences.
What is Predictable Books?
500
Two poems are created using the exact same words.
What is Reversos?
500
Makes the reader want to read on to see how the conflict is resolved and what happens to the people involved in the problem.
What is Tension?
500
Character whose traits are the opposite of the protagonist.
What is Character Foil?
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