Key Terms Informational Texts
Passages that explain or inform
What is Informational Text?
The structure of similarities and difference analyzes the relationships between ideas in a text
What Compare and Contrast?
Makes a comparison using a linking word such as like, as, or than.
What is Similes?
The set of rules for language.
What is Grammar?
Words that have the same meaning.
What is a synonyms?
The facts and ideas that support the central idea
What are Key Details?
Ideas are organized from least important to most important or from most important to least important.
What is Order of Importance?
Makes a comparison without a linking word
What is a metaphor?
A word that joins together different sentences, clauses, or phrases.
What is Conjunction?
Words that have opposite meanings.
What is an antonyms?
They are also called central or controlling ideas. It is what the text is mostly about
What is the Main Idea?
Text that is organized by problem and solution identifies a problem and proposes one or more solutions.
What is problem and solution?
The attribution of human characteristics to non-living objects
What is Personification?
Writing marks that help to separate and clarify ideas.
What is a punctuation?
Words that are spelled the same but have different meanings.
What is a homographs?
Text refer to how ideas influence individuals or events or how individuals influence ideas or events
What are interactions?
Events and their outcomes. A text may be organized by problems and solutions or actions and reactions
What is Cause and Effect?
An exaggeration that is created to emphasize a point or bring out a sense of humor.
What is a Hyperbole?
A word or phrase that is used to show direction, location, or time.
What is a Preposition?
The words, facts, or ideas in a text that explain a difficult or unusual word.
What are context clues?
Refers to the way in which a piece of writing is structured. Each sentence, paragraph, or chapter fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of ideas.
What is Organization?
The order in which a series of events happened. A text that is arranged in order of time from the beginning to the end
What is chronological order?
Language that names something or an action by imitating the sound associated with it
What is onomatopoeia?
A word or phrase that expresses sudden or strong feelings.
What is Interjection?
Use of words in a way that deviates from the conventional order and meaning in order to convey a complicated meaning, colorful writing, clarity, or evocative comparison.
What is a Figurative Language?