Figurative Language
Text Structure
Plot Elements
Genre Skills
Text Features
100
What type of figurative language compares 2 things using the words "like" or "as"? Example: "He was as fast as a cheetah."
Simile
100
If a text explains why something happened and what happened because of it, it's using this structure.
Cause and Effect
100
What do we call the time and location a story takes place?
Setting
100
What do we call a text that is made-up with characters, that usually has illustrations?
Fiction/Narrative
100
This real-life image helps you see exactly what something looks like in a nonfiction text.
Photograph
200
In which type of figurative language does the author give human-like characteristics to an animal or object? Example: "The trees danced in the wind."
Personification
200
This type of text structure gives lots of details about a topic, using adjectives, sensory words, or examples to help you picture it
Description
200
What is another word for the problem in a story?
Conflict
200
What do we call a text that is factual and meant to teach you something?
Nonfiction/Expository
200
This is the sentence under a picture that explains what’s happening in the image
Caption
300
What type of figurative language is an exaggerated statement, not meant to be taken literally? Example: "We've been waiting in line for this ride for a million years!"
Hyperbole
300
When an author describes a challenge and then offers ways to fix it, the text is using this structure
Problem and Solution
300
What do you call the people who are in a fictional story?
Characters
300
What do we call a text that sometimes rhymes and is made up of lines and stanzas?
Poem
300
This labeled drawing helps you understand how something works or the parts of something.
Diagram
400
In which type of figurative language does the author begin many words in a row with the same letter or letter sound? Example: "She sells seashells by the seashore."
Alliteration
400
When a text gives steps to follow or explains how to do something in order, it’s using this structure
Sequence
400
A character's thoughts or feelings about a topic.
Perspective
400
What do we call a text that tells you about a real person's life?
Biography
400
"This bold word or phrase at the top of a section tells you what that part of the text is about."
Heading
500
What type of figurative language compares two things by saying one thing "is" the other? Example: "You are my sunshine"
Metaphor
500
This structure is used when a text tells about events in the order they happened over time, like in a biography or historical article
Chronology
500
What do you call the lesson, message, or moral of a story?
Theme
500
What do we call a text that is has a cast of characters, is split into scenes, and shows character thoughts and actions through stage directions?
Drama / Play
500
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