Nonfiction Text Features
One way to show important words in the text.
What is bold text? or
underlined words
highlighted text
italics
words that are all caps
A word that has the opposite meaning of another word.
What is an antonym?
Example of figurative language:
He is as tall as a giraffe.
What is a simile?
When one event causes another event to happen.
What is cause and effect?
Texts that provide facts about a variety of topics, such as sports, animals, science, and history.
What is non-fiction?
A labeled illustration that helps explain the text.
What is a diagram?
A word that has the same meaning as another word.
What is a synonym?
Example of figurative language:
The wind whispered in my ear.
What is personification?
Double Jeopardy!!!!
Authors use this in their writing to help you paint a picture in your mind.
What is imagery?
A story including elements that are impossible such as talking animals or magical powers.
What is a fantasy?
A list of a book's sections or chapters and their page numbers.
What is the table of contents?
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative poem?
Double Jeopardy!!!!
Example of figurative language:
Be a pineapple and be sweet on the inside.
What is a metaphor?
A short statement, in your own words, of the most important events or ideas in a story or text. It has a bit from the beginning, a bit from the middle, and a bit from the end.
What is a summary?
The story of a real person's life that is written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
The words telling you what a picture is about.
What is a caption?
A poem that doesn't follow any specific patterns.
What is a free verse poem?
Example of figurative language:
I must have read a thousand passages last week.
What is a hyperbole?
When you use text evidence and your own knowledge to understand ideas that are not stated.
What is making an inference?
The story of a real person's life written by another person.
What is a biography?
A list of words and their definitions found at the end of a text.
What is a glossary?
When I put the events in the story in the order that they happened.
What is the sequencing the story?
Example of figurative language:
He got a 100 on his test and now he is on cloud 9.
What is an idiom?
Words and phrases around an unknown word that can give hints that help you determine what the word means.
What are context clues?
A fictional story that takes place in a particular time period in the past.
What is historical fiction?