Narrative
The person telling the story.
What is a narrator?
Time and place of a story.
What is setting?
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
What the text is mostly about.
What is central idea?
An author explains/tells about a topic, event, or person.
What is description?
What the character is feeling or thinking about what is happening in the story
What is perspective?
The people or animals in a story.
What are characters?
A comparison NOT using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Graphs, Illustrations, Photos, Captions, Titles, Headings, Subheadings, Timelines, Diagrams, Footnotes, Glossary, Bolded Words, Table of Contents
What are text features?
Events described in order of which they happened.
What is chronological?
The message or lesson in a story.
What is theme?
The main issue or struggle a main character faces in a story.
What is a conflict?
An extreme exaggeration
Hyperbole
Details from a text that support a claim.
What is evidence?
An author describes similarities and differences of two or more topics.
What is compare and contrast?
1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person
What is point of view?
The events that make up a story or the story line.
What is plot?
What is personification?
A statement the author makes that is supported with facts/details.
What is a claim?
An author presents a conflict and explains the resolution.
What is problem and solution?
Retelling the main events in story
What is summarizing?
The way an author develops a character throughout the story?
What is characterization?
What is an idiom?
What are the 3 author's purposes?
The why an author is writing.
Persuade
Inform
Entertain
What is cause and effect?
Give all 5 parts of a plot diagram.
Exposition
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
Name all story elements that we take notes on
Events
Characters/Characterization
Conflict
Theme
Plot
Give an example of each of the following types of figurative language:
Simile
Metaphor
Idiom
Hyperbole
Personification
:) or :(
Name 10 Text Features for 1000 points!
Possible Answers:
(Title, Headings, Subheadings, Table of Contents, Glossary, Bold words, Photograph, Illustration, Chart, Graph, Map, Diagram, Footnote, Timeline, Sidebar, etc)
Name all 6 Text Structures
Description
Cause and Effect
Problem and Solution
Compare and Contrast
Chronological
Sequence