Literary Texts
The location and time in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
A list of words and definitions.
What is the glossary?
A word that means almost the same thing.
What is a synonym?
"The tiny white flowers dotted the morning mountainside like patches of snow" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
A piece of writing that tells a story about someone else's life.
What is a biography?
This is when a character is talking.
What is dialogue?
A picture that includes labels of certain parts.
What is a diagram?
A word that means the opposite.
What is an antonym?
"The stars were candles guiding the weary travelers" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
This type of writing convinces the reader to do something or to agree with something.
What is persuasive writing?
This is the list of people in a play/story.
What is the cast of characters?
A passage that is explained in order of when the events happened uses this text structure.
What is chronological order?
What source would you use to find a list of synonyms for a word?
What is a thesaurus?
"This cat weights a ton" is an example of this.
What is a hyperbole?
This type of writing provides facts and explains something.
What is informational or nonfiction writing?
This is the part of the story when the story gets really good.
What is the climax?
This is at the end of an article and it lists the page numbers you can find important words or topics on.
What is an index?
When this is added to the beginning of a root word, it makes a new word and chenges the meaning of the word.
What is a prefix?
"Storm clouds threatened to flood the wheat fields in the Midwestern region" is an example of this.
What is personification?
"After we went outside, we ate lunch" is an example of this type of sentence.
What is a complex sentence?
This is the lesson of the story and teaches about life.
What is theme?
What two sentences do you look at to determine the main idea of a passage?
What is the first AND last sentence?
What is cause and effect?
Curious Cory caught Captain Crane watching CNN.
What is alliteration?
"Because she broke her arm" is an example of this.
What is an incomplete sentence?