Most authors of fictional stories write for this reason.
What is to entertain?
100
This text feature is frequently seen in textbooks and often tell you what the next section will be about.
What are subtitles or subheadings?
100
This is what you call the characters in a play.
What is the cast?
100
Fuzzy, Wuzzy was a bear or Humpty, Dumpty sat on a wall are both examples of this type of rhyme.
What is internal rhyme?
100
This words means you really don't want to do something. The kids were _______________ to line up to go inside from recess.
What is reluctant?
200
Every fictional story has these parts.
What are Plot Elements?
Setting, Main Character(s), Goal or Wish, Problem, Rising Action, Turning Point, Falling Action, and Solution/Resolution.
200
This is found in the very beginning of a nonfiction book and you use it to find the titles of chapters and page numbers.
What is a Table of Contents?
200
In a play, these are words in parentheses that actors do not speak, they just do.
What are stage directions?
200
Poets use this type of figurative language to appeal to the readers' five senses and help them create an image, or picture, in their mind.
What is imagery?
200
A synonym for this word is not often, rarely.
What is seldom?
300
This is how you find the main idea of a story.
What is: Topic + Main Point about the Topic = The Main Idea
300
Many times an author will use this to show the sequence of events in a story.
What is a timeline?
300
These are items used by actors to help them portray their characters such as fishing poles and baskets.
What are props?
300
This is what you call a rhyme scheme where the second and fourth lines in a stanza rhyme. For example:
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Sugar is sweet
And so are you!
What is every other line?
300
This words means to show or tell.
What is convey?
400
You do this to find the topic and main point about a topic in a paragraph or story.
What is circle or highlight repeated words, phrases, or connected ideas?
400
Many times an author will slant the words on a page to draw your attention to them and make you notice that they look different.
What is italicize the words or put the words italics?
400
This is a type of figurative language where an author gives human characteristics to objects that aren't human like "the house moaned and creaked."
What is personification?
400
This strategy is used to help summarize fictional stories.
What is the Somebody/Wanted/But/So/Then/Finally method?
400
This word means over the top, describing something as being better or worse than it really is.
What is exaggerating?
500
These type of fictional stories explain certain phenomena that happen in nature such as How Poison Came into the World or Why the Sky is so High?
What are origin myths?
500
These are considered Literary Nonfiction because they are true, but they also have plot elements.
What are biographies and autobiographies?
500
White powder plastered on her pockmarked face is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is alliteration?
500
This strategy is used to determine the best summary of nonfiction text.
What is the Main Idea from the Beginning, Main Idea from the Middle, and the Main Idea from the End strategy?
500
This word means to make important or stress the importance of something.