Literature
Informational
Vocabulary
Writing
Figurative Language
100
The author's message or lesson in a story
What is the theme?
100

If a text includes a cause, it must also have an

What is effect?

100

People speaking in a story

What is dialogue?

100

Periods, exclamation points, question marks

What is punctuation?

100

An exaggerated statement

What is hyperbole?

200

The proof in the passage (how to show your answer is correct)

What is text evidence?

200

When two ideas are the same, they have

What is similarities?

200

The act of showing the difference between two characters

What is contrast(ing)?

200

Punctuation that show direct speech or titles

What are quotation marks?

200

A comparison using like or as

What is a simile?

300

The storyline the reader follows during the passage (includes all events)

What is the plot?

300

The central point of an article or text

What is the main(central) idea?

300

The genre of writing that is informative and true

What is non-fiction?

300

Writing that gives information to the reader

What is Informational or Explanatory Writing?

300

A comparison between two things without using like or as

What is a metaphor?
400

The perspective of a character using pronouns such as she, he, they, them

What is third person point of view?

400

Time order in a text, a sequence of events from beginning to end

What is chronological order?

400

The genre that is made up

What is fiction?
400

On-demand writing that presents a point and tries to persuade its reader

What is argument writing?

400

Closely connected words starting with the same letter or sound

What is alliteration?

500

Finding the meaning of words by looking at a whole sentence

What are context clues?

500

An author's claim about a topic (is typically positive or negative)

What is point of view?

500

A group of lines in a poem

What is a stanza?

500

On-demand writing that tells a story

What is a narrative?

500

A reference to someone or something

What is an allusion?

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