Vocabulary
Non Fiction
Literary Elements
Reading Skills
Drama
100
In a quiet steady manner.
What is sedately?
100
writing about real people and events.
What is non fiction?
100
Central message of the story.
What is theme.
100
When you see a person, place, or object in your mind.
What is visualizing?
100
Listed at the beginning of the play and includes a description of the characters.
What is cast of characters?
200
Not involved emotionally.
What is detached?
200
Stories about the narrator's personal experiences.
What is a memoir?
200
"sunny, hot, filled with unexpected flowers"
What is cheerful theme.
200
Questions you ask yourself as you read
What is who, what, where, why, when?
200
Story told mainly through the words and actions of a character.
What is drama?
300
Firm and inflexible.
What is rigid?
300
A short piece of non fiction about a single topic.
What is an essay?
300
Writer's attitude toward the subject.
What is Tone?
300
Acts and Scenes
What are plays broken up into?
400
Based on facts or good evidence.
What is valid?
400
A story written about a person's life by another person.
What is biography?
400
An actor in a play
What is a character?
400
Uses words like first, then, meanwhile to explain the order of events.
What is sequence?
400
Conversation between characters.
What is dialogue?
500
Not safe or risky
What is precarious?
500
Learn about the world around you.
What is a reason you read non fiction?
500
The writer tells his or her life story.
What is autobiography.
500
When you figure out what the author means or wants you to know.
What is drawing conclusions.
500
Tells the characters how to speak their lines and where to stand on stage.
What are stage directions?
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