Non-Fiction Text Features
What feature of a non-fiction book helps you find where a topic is located?
What is the Table of Contents?
What is the main idea of a story?
What is what the story is mostly about?
What is a character trait?
What is how you would describe a character in a story?
What is it called when you say something but mean something else, like "It’s raining cats and dogs"?
What is an idiom?
What does PIE stand for?
What is Persuade, Inform, Entertain?
What part of a non-fiction book gives the title, author, illustrator, and publisher?
What is the Title Page?
What is theme?
What is the central message of the story?
What is an internal character trait?
What is how a character is on the inside?
What is the term for a comparison using "like" or "as"?
What is a simile?
When an author writes a book with facts about butterflies, their purpose is likely this.
What is to inform?
What is the term for the bold or italicized words that often have their meanings defined in the book?
What is keywords?
How can you find the main idea of a paragraph?
What is looking for the topic sentence or first sentence?
What is an external character trait?
What is how a character is on the outside?
What is the figurative language called when you give human qualities to animals or objects?
What is personification?
What is the authors purpose: A story that tries to make you think about helping animals and why you should volunteer at an animal shelter.
What is to persuade?
What feature provides pictures or diagrams with explanations in a non-fiction book?
What are captions?
What else do you need to identify when finding the main idea?
What is supporting details?
Give 3 examples of internal character traits.
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If someone says, "I’m so hungry I could eat a horse," what type of figurative language are they using?
What is hyperbole?
What is first person point of view?
What is when the narrator tells the story and is a character in the story?
What is the name of the list of topics with page numbers found at the end of a non-fiction book?
What is the index?
Give an example of a common theme found in books.
What is never give up, friendship, try your best, face your fear, be yourself.......
Give 3 examples of external character traits.
What is a metaphor?
What is a figure of speech that compares two things without using "like" or "as"?
What is when the narrator is an outside observer? Pronouns: they, she, he, him, her, his, them