Argumentative
Fiction
Poetry
Nonfiction
Vocabulary
100

The author's belief about an issue.

What is a claim?

100

The problem of the story.

What is the conflict?

100

The narrator of the poem is called this.

What is the speaker?

100

A text written in time order.

What is chronological order?

100

To have an effect on something.

What is to influence?

200

How the author supports their claim.

What is support?

200

How we analyze characters.

What is W.A.R.T.S.?

200

The part of the poem that is repeated.

What is the refrain?

200

A text written showing the similarities and differences of something uses this type of text structure.

What is compare and contrast?

200

To give a central focus or basis.

What is centers?

300

Taking what you know about one group and applying it to everyone.

What is a generalization?

300

The events of the story.

What is the plot?
300

An extreme exaggeration.

What is hyperbole?

300

Timelines, charts, graphs, photographs, captions, maps, and footnotes are all categorized as these.

What are nonfiction text features?

300

Chief or Main Importance

What is primary?

400

Giving favor to something in an unfair way.

What is bias?

400

"I went to the store" is written in this Point of View.

First Person

400

When an object is given human characteristics.

What is personification?
400

A text that is structured that shows something that happens, and what caused it to happen uses this text structure.

What is cause and effect?

400

To make clear by giving an example.

What is illustrate?

500

Errors in reasoning based on faulty logic.

What is a Logical Fallacy?

500

The outside narrator can see the thoughts of every character in this type of point of view.

What is Third Person Omniscient?
500

Language that uses the 5 senses to create an image in your mind.

What is sensory language?

500
When a word is underlined in the text, you should do this.

What is use the context around the word to make a guess of what it means?

500

To describe the character or qualities of something or someone.

What is to characterize?

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