Fiction
Main characters are considered major, other characters are considered to be _________.
What is minor?
In a story, we separate text by paragraphs. In a poem, we separate text using _________.
What is stanzas?
When reading nonfiction texts, the main idea must have supporting __________ to help the claim make sense.
(think of the chair analogy)
What is details?
A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea. A verb is a word that tell us the ________ of the noun.
What is action?
A word that joins words, sentences, or clauses is a ___________.
The time and place a story takes place is called the _________.
What is setting?
The rhyme scheme of this poem:
I love you, you love me
We're a happy family
With a great big hug and a kiss from me to you
Won't you say you love me too
What is aabb?
When you read a passage, think about it, and rewrite it in your own words it is called a ____________.
What is summary?
Adjectives always describe nouns. _________ describe pretty much everything else.
What is adverbs?
Who is Dr. Gladys B. West?
When a text is written with words such as "I", "we", "us", and "my" we say it is written in _______ person.
What is first?
A comparison between to unalike things using a connecting word (like or as)
What is a simile?
When you read something, use your prior knowledge to analyze it, and then make a decision about it you are drawing a ______________.
Every sentence must be a complete ____________.
What is thought?
What was the name of the story we read about living on the planet Venus?
What is "All Summer in a Day"?
The plot is the sequence of events in a story. It goes:
-introduction
-rising action
-climax
-___________
-conclusion/denouement
What is falling action?
The vacuum cleaner was eating up all the food on the floor is an example of ______________.
What is personification?
Authors can write nonfiction texts to explain, inform, or ______________. Fiction texts are written to entertain!
What is persuade?
Each sentence contains a subject and a _________.
What is predicate?
The poem "Still I Rise" was written by _____________.
Who is Maya Angelou?
The theme of a story is the ______ __________ that you get from it when you're finished reading.
What is life lesson?
The words in the paratheses indicate:
Bobby (jumping up and down): I am so excited for the park today!!
Mom (rolling her eyes and breathing deeply): We are going in 5 hours Bobby, please try to relax until then!
Bobby (screaming): BUT MOM!!!!!!
What is stage directions?
Consider the word: unattainable
State the prefix, root, and suffix.
What is un-, attain, and -able?
A sentence that is missing the subject or the predicate is considered a ____________. A sentence that has more than one complete thought is a ____________.
What is fragment and run-on?
The process of splitting cells is called __________.
What is mitosis?