Text Features
Vocabulary
Synonyms and Antonyms
Figurative Language
Story Elements
100
The words under a picture.
What is a caption?
100
Clues that are put into text that help you understand what a new word means.
What are context clues?
100
A synonym for jolly.
What is happy, or another word that will fit.
100
Click, Clack, Buzz, Screetch, Pow
What is ONOMATOPOEIA?
100
Where the story takes place.
What is the setting?
200
The tiny number beside a word in a story indicates this.
What is the definition for the word is at the bottom of the page?
200
When an author does not tell you specifically about a character. The reader must figure it out.
What is Indirect Characterization?
200
Add a prefix to make this word into an antonym-- Sufficient
What is INSUFFICIENT?
200
It's Raining Cats and Dogs!
What is Idiom?
200
What the story is about.
What is PLOT?
300
Three types of text features other than written words.
What are maps, charts, graphs, drawings, pictures?
300
The word that means to break something apart, and look at all of the small parts.
What is to analyze?
300
Dart, Dash, hightail it, scram, skeedaddle, are all synonyms of what word?
What is RUN?
300
Her hair looked like fresh spun gold.
What is Simile?
300
The building up in a story, when the action intensifies, like the side of a mountain.
What is the rising action?
400
Placed at the end of a book, it contains definitions for unknown words in that book.
What is a glossary?
400
The beginning of the story, when the author introduces you to the plot. At the bottom of the mountain, on a graphic organizer.
What is the exposition?
400
Antonym for Protagonist
What is ANTAGONIST?
400
Her eyes were deep blue pools that never seemed to end.
What is Metaphor?
400
The juicy part of a story.
What is climax?
500
The reason that an author includes text features into a story.
What is so that the reader will better see, hear, feel, understand the text?
500
The noun that the pronoun is referring to.
What is the antecedent?
500
Antonym for CONFLICT
What is RESOLUTION?
500
The trees were dancing and waving to the people on the street, since the wind was blowing so hard.
What is personification?
500
When they live happily ever after.
What is RESOLUTION?
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