Drama
Poetry
Fiction
Nonfiction
This and That
100
The people in the drama who have speaking and non-speaking roles.
What are characters?
100
The rhyming pattern of a poem
What is rhyme scheme?
100
The events that make up the story.
What is the plot?
100
Clues that help the reader figure out or understand the meaning of unfamiliar words.
What are context clues?
100
A form of exaggeration that writers use. Example: I've told you a million times!
What is hyperbole?
200
The place and time where the events of the drama take place.
What is the setting?
200
A group of lines in a poem
What are stanzas?
200
The main problem that the characters face.
What is the conflict?
200
The main purpose of an expository text.
What is to inform or explain?
200
These are not stated directly in the text. The reader must use background knowledge and text evidence to make these conclusions.
What is inference?
300
These are included in the drama and tell the actors where to move onstage.
What are stage directions?
300
A single group of words in a poem that are similar to a sentence.
What are lines?
300
This genre has real events, people, and places. The events featured in this genre could or did actually happen.
What is realistic fiction?
300
A section of the book where you can find the definitions of unknown words.
What is the glossary?
300
The author's reason for writing. For example, the author can write to entertain, inform, or persuade.
What is author's purpose?
400
An introductory paragraph that describes the setting and provides background information for the reader.
What is the prologue?
400
This type of poem has pairs of lines that rhyme. For example, every two lines rhyme with each other.
What is a couplet?
400
The author's message or moral lesson that is usually presented in a sentence.
What is theme?
400
The text or words that you find at the beginning of a paragraph that help introduce the topic.
What are subtitles?
400
Words that describe your 5 senses (sound, touch, taste, sight, and smell). Some examples are chirping, stinging, tangy, sweet, tiny, and flowery.
What is sensory language?
500
The minor sections of a play. These can take place in different settings.
What are scenes?
500
This type of poem reads like a list of adjectives about an object.
What is a list poem?
500
In this point of view, the narrator can describe what the characters are doing, but he does not know the characters' thoughts or feelings.
What is 3rd person objective?
500
The title of the story, subtitles, bold words, illustrations, charts, and graphs are all examples of what?
What are text features?
500
A group of words NOT meant to be taken literally.
What is an idiom?
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