Literary Elements
What is the term for the main message or lesson of a story?
What is theme?
What is the structure that describes events in the order they happen?
What is chronological order or sequence?
What is a word that means the opposite of another word?
What is an antonym?
What is the process of understanding and interpreting what you read?
What is reading comprehension?
What is the basic structure of a five-paragraph essay?
What is an introduction, three body/main idea paragraphs, and a conclusion?
In literature, what do we call the time and place in which a story occurs?
What is the setting?
Identify the text structure that compares and contrasts two subjects.
What is compare and contrast?
What do we call a word that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word?
What is a synonym?
What type of question asks you to find information directly stated in the text?
What is a literal question?
What do we call the process of revising written work?
What is editing?
Identify the character who opposes the main character in a story.
What is the antagonist?
What structure is describes a topic?
What is description?
Define the term 'context clues'.
What are hints of information from the surrounding text that help define a difficult word?
What do we call the main idea of a passage?
What is the central idea?
Identify the type of essay that uses an informational pillar as an organizer.
What is a Response to Text essay?
What is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"?
What is a simile?
What is the text structure that presents a problem and then discusses solutions?
What is problem and solution?
Identify the term for a word that is made up of the first letters of several words.
What is an acronym?
How can a reader determine the author's purpose?
What is analyzing the text for clues about why it was written?
What is the term for using specific examples to support your ideas in writing?
What is evidence?
Define the term 'point of view' in literature.
What is the perspective from which a story is told?
What structure tells the reasons why something happens?
What is cause and effect?
Identify the acronym for the figurative language terms AND what term each letter represents.
What is I'M A SHOP: Idiom, Metaphor, Alliteration, Simile, Hyperbole, Onomatopoeia, Personification?
What strategy involves summarizing what you've read in your own words?
What is paraphrasing?
What type of writing tells a story and its purpose is to entertain?
What is narrative writing?