Literary Texts
Informational Texts
Vocabulary
Figurative Language & Poetry
Writing
100
The location and time in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
100
A list of words and definitions.
What is the glossary?
100
A word that means almost the same thing.
What is a synonym?
100
"The tiny white flowers dotted the morning mountainside like patches of snow" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
100

These types of paragraphs are in the middle of your essay...

What is a narrative?

200
This is when a character is talking.
What is dialogue?
200
A picture that includes labels of certain parts.
What is a diagram?
200
A word that means the opposite.
What is an antonym?
200
"The stars were candles guiding the weary travelers" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
200
This type of writing convinces the reader to do something or to agree with something.
What is persuasive writing?
300
This is the list of people in a play.
What is the cast of characters?
300
A passage that is explained in order of when the events happened uses this text structure.
What is chronological order?
300
This reference lists synonyms for words.
What is a thesaurus?
300
"This cat weights a ton" is an example of this.
What is a hyperbole?
300
This type of writing provides facts and explains something.
What is informational or nonfiction writing?
400

This is the part of the story when the suspense peaks.

What is the turning point/climax?

400
This is at the end of an article and it lists the sources the author used to write the passage.
What is a bibliography?
400
When this is added to the beginning of a root word, it makes a new word and chenges the meaning of the word.
What is a prefix?
400
"Storm clouds threatened to flood the wheat fields in the Midwestern region" is an example of this.
What is personification?
400
"After we went outside, we ate lunch" is an example of this type of sentence.
What is a complex sentence?
500

This is the deeper meaning or the insight the story teaches about life.

What is theme?

500
The paragraph that usually reemphasizes and summarizes the main idea in an informational passage.
What is the last paragraph or conclusion
500
Words that sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings.
What are homophones?
500
"Rain drummed a steady tempo on the roof" is an example of this.
What is imagery?
500

This is the first paragraph of your essay. 

What is an introduction?

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