Parts of speech
A person, place, or thing
Noun
What do you call a piece of text that is about someone's life?
Biography
What do you call smaller ideas that help support the big idea?
Supporting details
What is it called when you look at what things have in common?
Compare
Simile
What do you call a word that describes a noun?
Adjective
What do you call a formal piece of writing that requires you to share what you think about a topic?
Opinion
What do you call the most important point of a piece of text the author wants to share?
Main Idea
What is called when you focus on the differences between things?
Contrast
What do you call a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that have something in common?
Metaphor
What do you call a word that modifies a verb?
Adverb
What do you call a text a story, description, or account of events?
Narrative
When writing informational text, what should each paragraph have to support your main idea?
Evidence
What word means a final decision reached by reasoning?
Conclusion
What is it called when you give human like characteristics to inanimate objects?
Personification
What do you call it when you put to words together using an apostrophe?
Contraction
What do you call a piece of non-fiction writing that aims to educate the reader about a topic?
Informational
What should you include at the end of an informational essay?
Work Cited
What is it called when you use context clues to form a conclusion?
Infer
What do you call a literary device that is used to create vivid description that appeals to a readers' senses in order to create an image or idea in their head?
Imagery
What do you call a word that that tells you where or when something is in relation to something else
Preposition
What is it called when you tell the most important parts of a text, in your own words, in a much shorter way?
Summary
What do you call the life lesson an author wants to teach you?
Theme
What word means to study (something) closely and carefully?
Analyze
What do you call a common phrase whose has a meaning is very different from its literal meaning?
Idiom