Types of Literature
Reading Strategies
Word Work
Elements of a Story
Figurative Language
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This type of literature contains biographies, autobiographies, and essays; and is entirely based upon facts.
What is nonfiction?
100
These clues can be found in the words or the sentences that come before and after the unfamiliar word.
What are context clues?
100
This is a letter or group of letters that is added to the beginning of a word root.
What is a prefix?
100
This is the highest point of tension or most exciting part of a story.
What is the climax?
100
Splash, Crunch, Growl, and Purr are examples of this type of poetic device.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
This type of fiction is similar to a myth. They are stories about a group's culture, but in this type the characters are actual people such as military leaders and community heros.
What are legends?
200
This reading strategy is your interpretation (educated guess) of a situation using your prior knowledge and text. For example, if you see flashing red lights up ahead, you might say there is a stoplight or a wreck.
What is making inferences?
200
This is the root word of diappointment that carries the meaning of the word. (Spelling Counts)
What is appoint?
200
These are two parts often identified through the setting.
What are where and when?
200
We had such fun. The park was a blast. We went for a run. Yes, we ran very fast. This phrase in an example of this poetic device.
What is rhyme?
300
A type of fiction that is based on superhuman characterisitics, is symbolic, contains extraordinary events, and has some cultural ties.
What is a myth?
300
This is a style of writing organization that shows what effects occur after an event of some kind.
What is cause and effect?
300
This is the suffix found in the word mysterious.
What is ous?
300
This is another word for the main idea or the general topic of a passage.
What is theme?
300
"Cameron couldn't copy the cruel calls of the cockatoo." This poetic technique is demonstrated in the example above.
What is alliteration?
400
This is the main point of reading myths and legends.
What is to explain something about a culture's history(culture's history - key words)?
400
"The train pulled in to the station fifteen minutes late. The rain was pouring down. People began to run back inside the depot." This would be a good generalization to make about the above sentences.
What is (answers may vary) Possibilities: Some people do not want to get wet by the rain?
400
"The people riding inside looked out the dirty train windows to see the buildings go by." Name a pair of words that mean the same thing as people and dirty in this sentence.
What is (answers will vary)? Possibilities include passengers/filthy or tourists/filthy
400
This is the part of the passage where the conflict is solved and the story is winding down to a conclusion.
What is resolution?
400
This is demonstrated in the following sentences. She is bright as a button. This kitchen is like a sauna. He is tall as a giraffe. It's raining like cats and dogs.
What is similie?
500
This is the most common way a fairy tale begins and the following is an example of a fairy tale.
What is "Once upon a time," and (answers will vary)? Possibilities: Rapunzel, The Three Little Pigs, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, and Sleeping Beauty.
500
The title of the passage usually tells about the most important point. This important literary skill often has supporting details to provide more necessary information.
What is the main idea?
500
These are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings. Two examples of homonyms are...
What are homonyms? Answers will vary. Bat / Bat Baseball Bat and Flying Bat Fire / Fire To Fire Someone and To Build a Fire Book / Book To Book a Flight and To Read a Book
500
These are the two most commonly used points of views, and these are three pronouns that identify first person point of view.
What are first person and third person points of view? What are I, me, we, or us?
500
This is an expression that means something different than the actual words it uses, and this is an example of the following type of figurative language.
What is idiom? Answers will vary. It's raining cats and dogs. Don't bite off more than you can chew. This was easy as pie. If I catch wind of something...
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