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life lesson or message of a story

Mood or theme


Theme

100

the speech of characters in a story or drama.

Dialogue or quotations

Dialogue

100

the events that happen in the beginning, middle, and end.

Dialogue or plot

Plot

100

the most important idea that the author is trying to say.

Dialogue or main idea

Main idea

100

a part of speech that describes a noun.

Adjective or pronoun

Adjective

200

a description of events written or told by someone who was actually there.

Firsthand account or secondhand account

Firsthand account

200

the perspective from which a story is told.

Tone or point of view

Point of view
200

a statement that can be proven.

Fact or opinion

Fact

200

what a piece of writing is about.

Fact or topic

Topic

200

periods, colons, exclamation marks, and question marks.

Capitalization or punctuation

Punctuation
300

words that have opposite meanings.

synonyms or antonyms

Antonyms

300

Includes metaphors, similes, hyperboles, alliteration, personification, oxymorons, and onomatopoeias.

figurative language or organizational structures

Figurative language

300

the words, facts, or ideas in a text that help you understand the meaning of an unknown word.

Figurative language or context clues

Context clues

300

a part of speech that describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.

Adverbs or adjectives

Adverbs

300

the order of events in a narrative.

Sequence or character

Sequence

400

words that have the same meaning.

Synonyms or antonyms

Synonyms

400

repeating or writing out exactly what a source said, word for word.

evidence or quotation

Quotation

400

may include facts, opinions of experts, quotes, statistics, and definitions.

quotation or evidence

Evidence

400

the instructions that tell actors what to do in a drama.

summary or stage directions

Stage directions

400

a story, also known as a play, that is written for people to act out.

Narrative or drama

Drama

500

a piece of writing that uses words and phrases chosen for their sound or meaning.

Poetry or prose

Poetry

500

a form of writing that uses ordinary language.

Drama or prose

Prose

500

chronological order, cause and effect, sequential, compare and contrast, and problem and solution

Organizational structures or figures of speech

Organizational structures

500

allows the reader to experience the way things look, sound, smell, taste, or feel through imagination.

Narrative sequencing or sensory details

Sensory details

500

Letters added to a root word that change its meaning. Includes prefixes and suffixes.

Affixes or root words

Affixes

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