Literary Texts
The location and time in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
A list of words and definitions.
What is the glossary?
A word that means almost the same thing.
What is a synonym?
"The tiny white flowers dotted the morning mountainside like patches of snow" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
A piece of writing that tells a story. It has characters, settings, and a plot.
What is a narrative?
This is when a character is talking.
What is dialogue?
A picture that includes labels of certain parts.
What is a diagram?
A word that means the opposite.
What is an antonym?
"The stars were candles guiding the weary travelers" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
This type of writing convinces the reader to do something or to agree with something.
What is persuasive writing?
This is the lesson learned, the moral, or the message of the story.
What is theme?
A passage that is explained in order of when the events happened uses this text structure.
What is chronological order?
This reference lists synonyms for words. For example you want to find other words that mean "happy." happy: excited, gleeful, joyous
What is a thesaurus?
The lead character or main character of the story.
What is a protagonist?
This type of writing provides facts and explains something.
What is informational or nonfiction writing?
This is a genre that has magic, royalty, and "they lived happily ever after."
What is a fairytale?
This text structure provides information about a topic. Signal words include:
• for example, for instance, to illustrate
What is description?
When this is added to the ending of a root word, it makes a new word and changes the meaning of the word. run: run + ning run+ s
What is a suffix?
It is someone's thinking or perspective.
What is point of view?
"After we went outside, we ate lunch" is an example of this type of sentence. It's not simple, it's ____.
What is a complex sentence?
This is when the character changes their thinking, attitude, or beliefs.
What is the turning point?
The paragraph that usually reemphasizes and summarizes the main idea in an informational passage.
What is the last paragraph or conclusion
Words that are spelled the same and sound the same, but have different meanings.
What is a homonym?
This is when something nonhuman or abstract has human characteristics.
What is personification
"Because she broke her arm" is an example of this. It's not a complete sentence, it's broken.
What is a fragment or a dependent clause?