Figurative Language
Plot
Text Features
Author's Purpose
Tone/Mood/Voice
100

A comparison using like or as

What is a simile?

100

The scene that is the most important part of the conflict and the story; before the falling action.

What is the Climax?

100

When an image is added to help a reader understand visually what the author is writing about.

What is a graphic?

100

When an author is writing for the enjoyment of their readers

What is Entertain?

100

The feeling the author establishes with their writing

What is Tone?

200

The use of sensory language (sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing) to help describe a scene

What is imagery?

200

The beginning of the story where characters, setting, time, and all other important details are introduced.

What is the Exposition?

200

The title

What is the name given to a piece of writing, usually to inform the reader what the article is about?

200

When the author is writing to make their readers agree with them

What is Persuade?

200

The feeling the reader gets from the piece of writing

What is Mood?

300

EX: He was a cheetah on the track

What is a metaphor?

300

Where the conflict of the story is solved or ends and we know the theme of the story for certain.

What is the Resolution?

300

A visual representation of numbers and data

What are graphs?

300

When the author is writing to teach their readers something

What is Inform?

300

Ex: The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe makes the reader feel uneasy

What is Mood?

400

EX: She sank slowly into the sliky sands surround.

What is alliteration?

400

The inciting incident.

What is the scene where the conflict is introduced to readers and the problem of the story gets started? 

400

The mini titles that seperate the paragraphs of an article

What are subheaders?

400

Ex: An author wrote a poem about how bad the food in the cafeteria is

What is to Entertain?

400

Ex: Superhuman by Nichola Yoon is written in a straightforward and blunt way

What is Tone?

500

EX: The hinges groaned in protest as she hurridly pushed open the door.

What is personification?

500

When the plot of a story does not take place in chronological order (in order of time)

What is non-linear?

500

The sentence that explains what an image or graph is showing readers

What is a caption?

500

Ex: Author writes to tell their readers how bad apple is

What is to Persuade

500

The style that the author writes in that is unique to them

What is Voice?

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