Literary Elements
The people and animals in a story
What are characters?
The text feature that tells you how many chapters are in a book and what page to find the chapters on.
What is the table of contents?
This genre focuses on giving facts and examples about a topic
What is an informational text?
The story of a real person’s life written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
This genre gives factual information in a way that reads like a story.
What is narrative nonfiction?
The time and place that the story takes place.
What is the setting?
The text feature that allows to find the meaning of some unknown words contained in the book.
What is the glossary?
The layer of the atmosphere where the earth's surface is located.
What is the troposphere?
Matthew's job when he was riding the White Knight was to ________.
What is pulling the lever to release the spaceship?
These are the names of the rovers that NASA launched into space in the summer of 2003.
What are Spirit and Opportunity?
The main problem that the characters face during the story
What is the problem or conflict?
The graphic feature that explains what is happening in a photograph.
What is a caption?
Auguste and his son, Jacques, worked together to create this to learn about the earth's atmosphere.
What is a gondola?
The toughest part of Matthew's job was _________.
What is not being able to tell his family about his work?
This made it difficult for Steve and his team to control Spirit on Mars.
What is the rover’s radio signals took ten minutes to get from Mars to Earth?
This is how the problem or the conflict is resolved
What is the resolution?
A list of the topics, names and places mentioned in it, together with the page numbers where they can be found...usually located in the back of a book.
What is an index?
Auguste and his son, Jacques, created a vessel called _____ to explore the depths of the ocean.
What is the Trieste?
This was something special that happened during the second flight of SpaceShipOne.
What is a new world record was set for the highest altitude reached by a single winged aircraft?
________ is the important discovery Opportunity made within just a few weeks.
What is evidence of water on the surface of Mars?
These are the things that happen in the story.
What are the events of the story?
These show chapter or section breaks, or indicate a change in narrator or point of view.
What are headings?
Auguste and Jacques were different from other explorers because instead of being mariners or soldiers, they were _____.
What are scientists?
Matthew tells people this whenever he has to speak on television or to students in classes.
What is that he is an ordinary guy who followed his dream?
This is the name of a third rover that landed on Mars and began to search for signs of life in August 2012.
What is Curiosity?