Literature Features
Analyzing Literature
Informational Text
Vocabulary
Take a Chance!
100
In this genre, characters are involved with events that could really happen
What is realistic fiction
100
When you take what you know and what the author tells you, you make this
What is an inference?
100
informational text is this type of genre
What is non-fiction?
100
This word beginning with a "c" means to communicate
What is "convey"
100
When an author nmakes a "claim", he/she must support it with this
What is evidence?
200
This type of fictional work tells a complete story in about 500 - 1500 words
What is a short story?
200
An author uses different types of "this device" to paint pictures with words and make the writing more descriptive (The answer is not imagery!)
What is figurative language?
200
this type of reasoning allows the reader to reach a conclusion based on observations and begins with specific details leading to a general conclusion
What is inductive reasoning?
200
This is the exact meaning of a word as it would be found in a dictionary.
What is denotation?
200
Triple Points! Name thtwo types of "dramas". Think "Shakespeare".
What are tragedies and comedies?
300
This is a type of writing on a specific subject and usually shows the opinion of the author.
What is an essay?
300
Daily Double! Besides non-fiction books, what are 3 other types of informational text?
What are magazine articles, textbooks, encyclopedia entries, reports, business letters, directions?
300
Name two types of affixes
What are prefix and suffix?
300
Name the 4 types of Point of View an author may use
What are first person, second person, third person limited, third person omniscient?
400
This type of poem is a long narative about a serious subject such as events that are important to a nation or culture
What is an epic poem?
400
Name the 5 parts of a plot map in order
What are exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution?
400
These are vague statements not supported by evidence
What are generalizations?
400
This is the meaning of the root dic/dict
What is say/speak?
500
This type of conflict has the characters trying to break free of a fixed path before them.
What is person vs destiny?
500
Name 2 places a reader can "look" to help them figure out the "central idea" of a piece of text.
What are the first sentence, the last sentence, within the text itself?
500
Name the 5 types of text structure
What are problem/solution, cause and effect, compare and contrast, description, sequence
500
These are the words, phrases or ideas around a word to help you figure out the meaning of a word.
What are context clues?
500
Name 5 types of poems
What are narrative, ballad, epic, lyric, sonnet, free verse, cinquain, diamante, limericks...?
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