The repetition of the same sound at the beginning of words in a line of poetry or in a sentence.
What is alliteration?
100
The most important facts that hold up the main idea about a topic.
What are details?
100
Using the text evidence or clues in the story, plus what you know to make decisions, about events or a character, that are not stated.
What is an inference?
100
The story of a real person's life told by another person.
What is a biography?
100
Narrative writing written with the purpose to entertain.
What is fiction?
200
The pattern of rhyming lines in a poem.
What is poetry?
200
The place and time where the story happens
What is setting?
200
To make a short statement of the most important events or ideas in a story by putting the events in your own words.
What is summarizing?
200
The story of a person's life written in that person's own words.
What is an autobiography?
200
When a story is told by a character who is involved in the story using pronouns I, me, we us, and mine within the narration.
What is 1st person point of view?
300
Using words "like" or "as" to compare two nouns that are not alike.
What is a simile?
300
The series of events that happens in the story (conflict, rising action, climax, resolution/solution).
What is plot?
300
To inform, to entertain, to express emotion, or to persuade.
What is the author's purpose?
300
The text a reader would read in order to learn how-to do something.
What is procedural text?
300
When one event gives rise to another event later in the story by giving clues to the reader of what will come later.
What is foreshadowing?
400
Describing human qualities in something that is not a person.
What is personification?
400
The most important point the author makes about a topic held up by supporting details.
What is the main idea?
400
The narrator is outside the story and knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters using the pronouns they, them, he and she within the narration.
What is 3rd person omniscient?
400
In a persuasive text, the author states a position and then makes _______.
What is an argument?
400
As plot events unfold, the roles of _______ are revealed by their choices and decisions.
What are characters?
500
The rhyme that occurs within one line of poetry.
What is internal rhyme
500
The underlying idea of the story that the author wants the reader to understand (the moral, lesson, the point that the author wants to get across).
What is theme?
500
The narrator is outside the story and knows the thoughts and feelings of the story's main character. The pronouns they, them, he, and she is used within the narration.
What is 3rd person limited point of view?
500
A text that presents a topic using facts, examples and explanations.
What is expository text?
500
The problem that is introduced in the beginning of the story.