Nonfiction Vocabulary
Photographs, Table of Contents, Captions, Labels, Diagrams, Fact Box, Glossary, Index, Headings, Title, etc.
What are text features?
qualities that define a character, encompassing their thoughts, feelings, personality, and the actions they take
What are character traits?
This poem has 3 lines which have 5, 7, 5 syllables, does not rhyme and is often about nature.
What is a haiku?
The function of un- in the word unbelievable?
What is not
The writing under a picture that describes it.
What is a caption?
The word for what a nonfiction passage is mostly about that has key details to support it.
What is the central idea?
the person telling the poem or story
What is a narrator?
when you make something not a human act like a person
What is personification?
What is does the word "careless" mean in the following sentence?
Due to the driver's careless actions, he got into a car accident and ruined his car.
What is not paying attention closely or caring
Keywords for this structure include: as a result, cause, because of, since, due to
What is cause and effect?
compare and contrast, cause and effect, chronological
What are text structures?
The way a character views the events of a story
What is perspective?
This poem has 5 lines, follows a AABBA rhyme scheme, and is often funny
What is a limerick?
The word for when you heat up your oven before you put your food in
What is preheat?
What are the titles of each paragraph or section called?
What are headings?
Why the author wrote the text (Persuade, Inform, Entertain)
What is the author's purpose?
the message or the lesson of a story?
What is theme
A comparison using like or as
What is simile?
What does the suffix -able mean, as used in the following sentence...
The accident was preventable if they had cleaned up the water they spilled.
What is able to/ can be done
Keywords for this structure include: like, similar, unlike, different, while, on the other hand, however, both
What is compare and contrast?
The authors opinion in a nonfiction text
What is Author Claim
the reasons why a character acts, thinks or feels a certain way
What is motivation?
a purposeful exaggeration not meant to be taken literally
What is hyperbole?
the meaning of the root word aqua, as in the word aquarium/ aquamarine
What is water?
Keywords for this text structure includes: first, then, next, after, later, before, meanwhile, suddenly, finally, last
What is chronological structure?