Non Fiction Text Features
Explains a picture, photograph, or diagram.
What is the CAPTION.
A person, place or thing.
What is a NOUN?
The definition of ONOMATOPEIA.
What is a Sound word?
This is how the story ends.
What is the RESOLUTION?
These represent the "who" is in the story.
What are the CHARACTERS?
Shows the titles of chapters and the pages they start on, like a map for the book.
What is the TABLE OF CONTENTS?
A word that describes a noun (person, place or thing).
What is an ADJECTIVE?
This is the definition of an IDIOM.
What is a non-literal meaning?
The most exciting part of the story, also known as the turning point.
What is the CLIMAX?
This should include "time" and "place"
What is the SETTING?
Gives definitions for difficult words in the text.
What is the GLOSSARY?
An action word.
What is a VERB?
This is the definition of SIMILIE.
What is the comparison of two things using "like" or "as"
The events that lead to the climax are known as this on the plot line.
What is the RISING ACTION?
Something that the characters are facing/going through in the story.
What is the CONFLICT?
Helps the reader pay special attention to a word because it is very important.
What are BOLD PRINT or BOLD WORDS?
Examples of this is include; teacher, city, cat, dog.
What are COMMON NOUNS?
This is the example of a HYPERBOLE.
What is an exaggeration?
The events that lead to the resolution in the story.
What is the FALLING ACTION?
The 5 parts on the plot line in order.
What are the EXPOSITION, RISING ACTION, CLIMAX, FALLING ACTION, and RESOLUTION?
Breaks down a text into different sections and tells you what each part is about.
What are the HEADINGS & SUBHEADINGS?
This is the definition of COMPOUND WORDS.
What are two words put together to create one word?
This is the definition of PERSONIFICATION.
What is giving human traits to non-human things?
These parts should be included in the Exposition part of the plot line.
What are the CHARACTERS, SETTING, and CONFLICT?
This is the message that the author is trying to tell us, sometimes without directly saying it.
What is the THEME?