Text Features
What do you call the text that describes a picture
What is a caption?
A "paragraph" of poetry; a group of lines separated by a space
What is a stanza?
When the authors give a problem and ways it can be solved
What is problem and solution?
Comparing using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
A story that is made up from the author's imagination.
What is fiction?
This feature is found at the back of the book and provides definitions for key terms.
Glossary
A row of words in a poem (it’s like a sentence, but for poetry).
What is a line?
An author uses this structure to highlight similarities and differences between two topics.
What is Compare and contrast?
A direct comparison that says one thing is another thing, without using "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
A word that has the same or similar meaning as another word.
What is a synonym?
This feature uses thicker, darker ink to signal that a word is important or a vocabulary term.
What is a bold word
The central message, lesson, or moral that the author wants the reader to take away.
Theme?
This structure organizes events in the order they occurred in time.
What is chronological?
An extreme exaggeration used for emphasis or humor, like "I've told you a million times."
What is a hyperbole?
Using the words surrounding an unknown term to figure out its meaning.
context clues
This feature helps the reader understand the chronological order of events in a visual way
What is a timeline?
To bring a feeling, memory, or image to mind for the reader.
What is evoke?
This structure explains why something happened and the results that followed.
What is cause and effect?
The repetition of the same beginning consonant sound in a line of poetry.
What is alliteration?
The perspective from which a story is told (1st or 3rd person).
What is point of view?
This feature provides additional information or a "fun fact" located to the side of the main article.
What is sidebar?
The "beat" or pattern of sounds in a poem
What is rhythm?
This structure provides a mental picture by focusing on characteristics, features, and examples.
What is description?
Giving human qualities or characteristics to an animal, object, or idea
What is personification?
An author uses these to prove their central idea is true
What is Relevant details/evidence?