Text Features
Literary Terms
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100
This is the acronym for what text features to look for.
What is BIG CUTS?
100
This is the term for the beginning of a story, when you are learning about the setting and the main character.
What is the introduction?
100
I am the first character in the book, "Bronx Masquerade."
Who is Wesley?
100
This is the name for the cultural movement of African American artists, poets, and writers in New York City in the early 1900s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
100
This is what they called the period of class time when students stood up to perform their poems in front of the class.
What is Open Mike?
200
This is a description of the term "caption."
A written explanation of graphics in an article or written work.
200
This is another term for the problem in a story.
What is the conflict?
200
I am the person who wrote the book, "The Outsiders."
Who is S. E. Hinton?
200
This is the name of the author of "Bronx Masquerade."
Who is Nikki Grimes?
200
This is the term used for an educated guess.
What is an inference?
300
This is the next step to do after reviewing the text features of an article.
What is write a sentence predicting what the article will be about?
300
This is the term for the sequence of events in a story.
What is the plot?
300
I am the "mystery" person who they say created many of the world's famous ancient fables.
Who is Aesop?
300
This is the name of a prominent African American poet from the 20th or 21st century.
Answers will vary. Points will be given at the game host's discretion.
300
Name three characters from The Outsiders.
Answers will vary; points given at the discretion of the game host.
400
This is what I should be thinking when I see a word or phrase underlined, in bold, or in italics in a reading passage on the EOG.
What is, think to myself, "Pay attention, because there will probably be a question about this?"
400
This is the term used to describe a conflict in which the main character is up against another person.
What is man versus man?
400
I am the first African American writer to live exclusively from the proceeds of his/her writing.
Who is Langston Hughes?
400
This is the name of the last character in Bronx Masquerade.
Who is Mai Tren?
400
This is a description of one of the poems presented by a character in Bronx Masquerade. (You must give the character's name!)
Answers will vary. Points are given at the game host's discretion!
500
This is the only text feature that can be entirely without words.
What are graphics?
500
This is the term for a literary work that is meant to be seen and heard, not read.
What is a drama?
500
I am the "strong" character in "The Outsiders" who ends up committing suicide after the loss of my closest friend.
Who is Dally (Dallas)?
500
This is the meaning of the term "mnemonic device."
What is a strategy used to help remember something?
500
Who is the author of the story, "Thank You Ma'am?"
Who is Langston Hughes?
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