a story written about someone's life by another person
What is a biography?
100
where you look up definitions of words
What is a glossary?
100
a two line poem that rhymes
What is a couplet?
100
the time and place of a story
What is the setting?
100
what the story is mostly about
What is the main idea?
200
a made up story that usually begins with "Once upon a time" and ends with "Happily ever after". Often has a prince or princess as one of the characters.
What is a fairy tale?
200
a list of chapters or sections of the book along with the pages they can be found on
What is a table of contents?
200
a 3 line poem about nature that has a total of 17 syllables
What is a haiku?
200
the events that happen in a story
What is the plot?
200
taking what you've read and shortening it and putting it into your own words
What is summarizing or paraphrasing?
300
a made up story
What is fiction?
300
in the reading passage, the little numbers behind some words that mean that there is a definition of that word at the bottom of the page
What is a footnote?
300
a funny five-line poem that has an AABBA rhyme scheme
What is a limerick?
300
the lesson or moral of the story
What is the theme?
300
why the author wrote a story
What is author's purpose?
400
a made up story that blends fact and fiction with futuristic technology. It often involve aliens and outer space.
What is science fiction?
400
the section of the book that lists where the author got their information or research from
What is a bibliography?
400
a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
What is an epic poem?
400
the main character in a story
What is the protagonist?
400
to put the events of a story in the order they happened
What is sequence or chronological order?
500
a made up story that has elements that are not real. Sometimes this includes talking animals or characters with magical powers. There’s usually a conflict between good and evil.
What is fantasy?
500
extra sections added to the end of a textbook that give additional information
What is an appendix?
500
A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes
What is a sonnet?
500
a character who opposes the protagonist
What is a antagonist?
500
the skill that asks you to figure out who is telling the story