Literary Elements
The people or animals in the story
Who are Characters?
A story that is made up or not true
What is fiction?
What the first letter "P" stands for in PREP
What is Preview the text and the questions?
What a non-fiction text is mostly about
What is the main idea?
Words that are usually written darker print than others
What is Bold Print?
The message the author wants to deliver or for the reader to learn from a text
What is the central message or theme?
A selection that is true or factual
What is non-fiction?
What the "R" stands for in PREP
What is "Read the Text"
Words, phrases, or sentences that support the main idea; tell who, what, when, where, and why
What are details?
Words that written with slanting letters
What is italics?
The main conflict or challenge the characters face.
What is problem or the main problem?
What the "E" stands for in PREP
What is the evidence or find the evidence?
What the author states to be true.
What is author's claim?
A picture or drawing added to a selection
What is an illustration?
Where and when the story takes place
What is the setting?
A text with stanzas and lines
What is poetry?
What the second "P" in PREP stands for
What is "Pick the BEST Answer"?
How a person feels about something
What is their opinion?
a small dictionary in the back of a book or following a text
What is a glossary?
The reason why an author wrote a particular selection
What is author's purpose?
Written directions for cooking something
What is a recipe?
What readers do when they find the evidence
What is "Go back, go back, go back into the text?"
A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves
What is a phrase?
a picture with labels that helps with the understanding of the written information in a selection
What is a diagram?