Poet Know-it
What's Your Story?
Research Papers
Text Features
Text Structure
100
The person or persons reading a text, listening to a speaker, or observing a performance
Audience
100
A section of any introductory material before the first chapter
Prologue
100
Statements in a paragraph that explain the main idea with details.
Support Sentence
100
Text describing the content of a picture, graph or chart
Caption
100
Name the text structure: The dodo bird used to roam in large flocks across America. Interestingly, the dodo wasn't startled by gun shot. Because of this, frontiersmen would kill entire flocks in one sitting. Unable to sustain these attacks, the dodo was hunted to extinction.
Cause and Effect
200
Matching similarities of sounds in two or more words
Rhyme
200
A relatively short narrative story, usually a poem, written to be sung, with a simple and dramatic action. It tells of love, death, the supernatural, or a combination of these.
Ballad
200
A brief restatement in one's own words of all or part of someone else's writing, as opposed to quoting the work.
Paraphrase
200
Alphabetical list of key terms related to a subject; usually found in the back of a text book
Glossary
200
Name the text structure: Jack and Jill ran up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after.
Chronological
300
Varying speed, loudness, pitch, intensity, and expressiveness of speech
Rhythm
300
Time and Place
Setting
300
An educational resource that is written about a primary source
Secondary Source
300
Alphabetical list of topics included in the book and their corresponding page numbers; found in the very back
Index
300
Name this text structure: Here are the three worst things that you can do on a date. First, you could tell jokes that aren’t funny and laugh really hard to yourself. This will make you look bad. Worse though, you could offend your date. One bad “joke” may cause your date to lash out at you, hence ruining the engagement. But the worst thing that you can do is to appear slovenly. By not showering and properly grooming, you may repulse your date, and this is the worst thing that you can do.
Order of Importance
400
Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme
Free Verse
400
Often used as the moral of a fable, this is the added ending to a literary work such as a novel, play, or long poem.
Epilogue
400
A passage or segment taken from a longer work, such as a musical, play, document, research paper, etc.
Excerpt
400
Announces the topics that will be covered, a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below is about
Heading
400
Name this text structure: Thousand of people die each year in car accidents involving drugs or alcohol. Lives could be saved if our town adopts a free public taxi service. By providing such a service, we could prevent intoxicated drivers from endangering themselves or others.
Problem and Solution
500
The repetition of consonant sounds; for example, George the Giant of the Juniper Jungle jumps jaguars as high as jaybirds.
Alliteration
500
Secondary plot that takes place simultaneously with a larger plot, usually involving the protagonist
Subplot
500
After a brief introduction, it is your stated point of view on the topic dire
Thesis Statement
500
Not a prologue that introduces a novel, this is a statement at the front of the book by the book's author or editor, explaining its purpose and expressing appreciation for help received from others
Preface
500
Name this text structure: When you walk into my bedroom there is a window facing you. To the right of that is a dresser and television and on the other side of the window is my bed.
Spatial or Descriptive
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