Text Structures
This text structure puts events in order
Sequence
A saying that doesn't mean what it says
Idiom
Animals, people, or creatures in a story
Characters
Retelling the story in your own words with the highlights
Summary/Summarizing
The "paragraphs of poetry"
Stanzas
This text structure takes two or more things and defines how they are alike or different
Compare and Contrast
Compares two things using "like" or "as"
Simile
Where a story takes place
Setting
Reading between the lines
Infer/Inferencing
A word part that comes at the end of a word
Suffix
This text structure defines when something happens because another thing happened.
Cause and Effect
Compares two things but doesn't use "like" or "as"
Metaphor
The challenge or problem a character faces in a story
Conflict
What the author is trying to convince you of
Author's Claim
Something important that an author wants readers to know about a topic, often the reason why the passage was written
Central Idea or Main Idea
This text structure gives an in depth portrayal of something
Description
Personification
The message or lesson the author wants to share
Theme
Important details to the story
Relevant Details
A regular pattern of sound in a poem, it sounds like a song
Rhythm
This text structure describes an issue and how it is resolved.
Problem and Solution
An exaggeration
Hyperbole
A series of events that happen in a story
Plot
When someone writes about something they didn't witness first hand
Secondary Source
A repetition of a sound. "Sally sells seashells down by the seashore."
Alliteration