Text Structure
The author puts events in order or explains steps to follow to do or make something.
Sequence of event
Tells what the text will be about.
Title
A true story about a person's life told by someone else.
Biography
A word that sounds like the word it is describing.
Example: Ring-Riiing
Onomatopoeia
When you brainstorm and organize your ideas.
Prewrite
The author describes a person, place, or thing in a logical order. Often employs the five senses to help the reader visualize the information.
Description
Provides definitions
Glossary
A true story about a person's life told by that person.
Autobiography
Give inanimate or non-human things human qualities.
Example: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
It has a central idea or thesis statement and at least 3 supporting statements.
Paragraph
The author shows how events or concepts happen as a result of other events or concepts.
Cause and Effect
Notes the names of each chapter or section and gives the page numbers
Table of contents
A reference book organized chronologically or by topic
A phrase that means something completely different that what is says.
Example: I killed two birds with one stone.
Idiom
A type of poem that has no rhyme, rhythm, or structure.
Free verse
The author provides similarities and differences between two topics.
Compare and Contrast
Provides information about a photograph or illustration
Caption
A conversation between two people where questions and answers are exchanged
Interview
Figurative language that compares two things using "like" or "as".
Example: Her voice is as loud as a foghorn.
Simile
A type of poem that is made of 17 syllables and usually about nature
Haiku
The author introduces a problem and then presents one or more solutions.
Problem and Solution
A text box that provides additional or more in depth information.
Sidebar
A short nonfiction piece that focuses on one topic or subject.
Essay
Figurative language that compares two things BUT does not use "like or as"
Example: Spending too much time with him is worse than swimming in a sea of sharks.
Metaphor
Name the five types of conflict.
Man Vs Man
Man Vs Nature
Man Vs Society
Man Vs Technology
Man Vs Self