Genres
Text Features
Poetry
Literacy Concepts
Potpouri
100
this genre tells a story
What is fiction/narrative?
100
This is under the title and gives more information about the title.
What is a sub-title?
100
a poem that does not rhyme
What is free verse?
100
what the story is mostly about
What is main idea?
100
a synonym for effect is "results"; the synonym for cause is
What is reason?
200
a synonym/or another word for non-fiction
What is informational text?
200
a sentence written under a picture
What is a caption?
200
a section of a poem
What is a stanza/verse?
200
the main problem in the story
What is conflict?
200
*Daily Double* When a character is fighting for survival in a snow storm is an example of what type of conflict
person vs nature
300
tells the story of a person's life written by the person
What is an autobiography?
300
a time line that lists events in this type of order
What is chronological?
300
the two "R"s of poetry
What are rhyme and rhythm?
300
the feelings an author creates in the reader
What is mood?
300
I take what I know and what the author tells me to make a good guess
What is an inference/to infer?
400
a make-believe story that teaches a lesson and may include animals as characters
What is a fable?
400
description, sequence, compare and contrast, problem/solution, cause and effect
What are various text structures an author uses?
400
a technique where a poet uses words to create pictures in one's mind
What is imagery?
400
the 3 reasons an author writes
What are to persuade, to entertain, to inform/teach
400
when I support my answer with information from the text, I am citing this
What is evidence?
500
A collection of a person's most memorable and specific events written by that person
What is a memoir?
500
this provides more information at the bottom of the page
What is a footnote?
500
these can be used when determining the rhyming pattern of a poem
What are the letters of the alphabet?
500
seriousness, sarcasm, humor are examples of this used by an author
What is author's tone?
500
the way in which an author constructs his/her writing
What is text structure/author's craft?
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