Story Elements
Poetry
Text Evidence vs Inferenceing
Anything Goes!
100

The message, lesson, or moral in the story.

Theme

100

The girls are like two peas in a pod. 

In this sentence, what type of figurative language device is used?

Simile

100

The most important point or idea that an author is trying to make in a nonfiction text is known as the ...

Central Idea

100

True or False: A theme can be a single word.

FALSE - themes are always a sentence or statement

200

Themes are not explicit. What does explicit mean?

Not clearly stated

200

What is a metaphor?

Comparing 2 unlike things not using like or as. 

Ex. The girl is a thorny rose.

200

What are you doing when you copy evidence from the text word for word (exactly as it is written in the text)?

Hint: You always put quotation marks around this type of evidence.

Quoting

200

The sentence: He can't sit still; he must have ants in his pants uses what type of figurative language?

Idiom

300

These are words (adjectives) we use to describe characters.

Character Traits

300

The tone is the ________ of the poem, while the mood is the ______ the reader gets.

The tone is the attitude of the poem, while the mood is the feeling the reader gets. 

300

When you take what you know about a topic and add new information based on what you have read, what are you doing?

Inferencing

300

Readers use ________ and ________ inferences to develop a central idea.

Implicit / Explicit

400

A strategy for summarizing stories/fiction is...

Somebody

Wanted

But

Then

So

400

WHAM! Is an example of which figurative language?

onomatopoeia



400

If you get an idea while reading, but it is not clearly stated. Is it inferecing or explicit?

Inference

400

If a text uses the following signal words: similar, same, alike, both, or unlike then the text is using which type of informational text structure?

Compare and Contrast

500

What is a plot?

The beginining, middle, end of a story that includes a problem and solution.
500

Give an example of personification

(answer may vary but it should give a human like characteristic to a non-human thing)

500

Based off this quote: "She walked down the creakig stairs, slowly she rounded the corner and jumped!" What can you infer about the character's feelings

She got scared.

500

If a text uses the following signal words: first, second, third, next, after, or finally then the text is using which type of informational text structure?

Sequencing

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