Informational Text
A text structure that tells about a problem and offers one or more solutions
What is problem and solution?
You start reading with this passage
What is the shorter or easier passage?
A section of the story that takes place in one setting
What is a scene?
This is the opposite of a fact and is generally biased
What is an opinion?
The paragraphs of a poem
What is a stanza?
The text that immediately follows the title
Subtitle
A Venn-Diagram is used to do this
What is Compare and Contrast?
Words spoken between characters in a drama
What is dialogue?
This is the group of readers that the author is talking to
What is the audience?
Tells you the mood of the poem
What is tone?
A text feature that helps readers find information quickly.
Table of contents, index, headings, subheadings, etc.
A key feature to look for when reading two paired passages
What is a similarity or difference?
A genre of drama that typically includes humorous elements and ends with a happy resolution.
What is Comedy?
Another person said this and the author is using their statement in their passage
What is a quote?
Tells you what the poem is really about! i,e. the morals, the reasoning
What is the theme?
Is used to lay out the major points made by the author in each section
What is a heading?
The STAAR will ask these types of questions on paired passages
What is compare and contrast?
When the speaker is talking to themselves or to the audience only
What is a monologue?
This is why the author wrote the argumentative passage
What is the author's purpose?
The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line in a poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
Found in nonfiction materials that help to organize what you are reading
What are Nonfiction Text Structures?
You should use this to take notes during the STAAR test
What are pencil and paper?
Placement of characters/props on stage that help the reader understand and visualize
What are stage directions?
The author uses descriptive language to ____ for the reader
What is illustrate?
A figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?