Poetry
This is a word that sounds like the noise it describes.
What is onomatopoeia?
A type of story about made-up characters and events.
What is fiction?
This is the main idea or message of a story.
What is the theme?
The person telling the story.
What is the narrator?
The person or animal in a story.
What is a character?
A type of poem that tells a story and often has a rhyming pattern.
What is a narrative poem?
This genre tells true stories about a person's life.
What is a biography?
The part of the story where the main problem is solved.
What is the resolution?
Words that describe people, places, or things.
What are nouns?
Where and when a story takes place.
What is the setting?
This poetic device compares two things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
A type of fiction that includes magical or unreal elements.
What is fantasy?
Describe what "inferring" means when reading.
What is understanding something that isn't directly stated in the text?
Actions words that show what someone or something is doing.
What are verbs?
The series of events in a story.
What is the plot?
Name three different types of poetry forms.
What are haiku, sonnet, and free verse?
Name three elements that make up a mystery story.
What are: a crime/problem, suspects, and clues?
Explain three strategies for understanding a difficult text.
What are: re-reading, using context clues, and asking questions?
Name three types of figurative language.
What are metaphors, personification, and idioms?
Describe the difference between protagonist and antagonist.
What is the protagonist is the main character, while the antagonist is the character causing problems?
Explain the difference between internal rhyme and end rhyme.
What is internal rhyme occurs within a line, while end rhyme happens at the line's end?
Describe the key differences between science fiction and historical fiction.
What is science fiction involves imaginary future technology, while historical fiction is set in a real past time period?
Describe the difference between summarizing and paraphrasing.
What is summarizing reduces a text to its main points, while paraphrasing restates the text in your own words?
Explain how context clues help you understand new words.
What is using surrounding words and sentences to figure out the meaning of an unknown word?
Explain how a character's motivation drives the story's plot.
What is a character's goals and reasons for their actions that move the story forward?