Organizational Patterns
Historical information and stories are often told in time order, also known as this.
What is Chronological Order?
This is when non-human things are given human qualities or characteristics.
What is Personification?
These divide the text into sections and introduces the topic of the section.
What are Headings?
This resource provides synonyms (words with similar meanings) and antonyms (words with opposite meanings).
What is a Thesaurus?
This word part comes before the root word and modifies the meaning of the word. Example: re- in retake.
What is a Prefix?
In this pattern, stages in a cycle are explained or steps of a procedure are given.
What is Sequential or Order/Process?
"You are my sunshine" is an example of this.
What is metaphor?
Words are bigger when using this, which makes lists easier to read and understand.
What is Boldface Print?
This is a list of terms and their definitions, usually found at the end of a book.
What is a Glossary?
This word part is added to the end of a word to form a derivative, such as -ing in dancing.
What is a Suffix?
What is Compare and Contrast?
This is the repetition of the same beginning sound in a series of words, such as, "someone should stop that sneaky snake."
What is Alliteration?
This slanted typeface is used to draw attention to words, as well as to cite titles of works.
What is Italics?
The words at the top of pages in a dictionary are called this.
What are Guide Words?
Many words in English contain root words that come from these two languages. For example, “chrono” and "bene".
What are Greek and Latin?
This organizational pattern explains the reasons why something happened, and/or the effects of an event.
What is Cause and Effect?
This uses exaggeration for the sake of humor or emphasis, such as, "They must have been busy when I called because I was on hold for 7 hours."
What is hyperbole?
This shows what something looks like as drawn by an artist.
What is Illustration?
This reference material will list subject-specific terms and definitions.
What is a Glossary?
The root word "spect" (as in spectacle or inspect) means this.
What is "to look"?
This organization pattern is likely to use words like "challenge, issue, dilemma," and "solve, improve, respond".
What is Problem and Solution?
"You are as sweet as sugar" is this type of figurative language.
What is Simile?
These appear at the bottom of a page to provide additional information and are indicated by a superscript number in the text.
What are Footnotes?
This lists a word’s origin, pronunciation, part of speech, definition, and spelling.
What is a dictionary?
The root word "tele" as in telescope means this.
What is "far, distant"?