Poetry
Text Features
Author's Purpose
Drama
Figurative Language
100

A group of lines in poetry, similar to a paragraph.

Stanza

100

This text feature helps me know what words are important in the text.

Bold words

100

The author's purpose of an advertisement about the best features of an iPad that includes words like you should and best.

Persuade

100

The name for the group of people in a play.

The cast

100

Comparing two items using the words LIKE or AS.

Similie

200

Poetry that does not rhyme.

Free verse

200

Shows where places are located.

A map

200

The author's purpose for writing fiction.

To entertain

200

These are the words that tell what the characters should be doing while on stage. These words are usually in (parenthesis).

Stage direction

200

Repeating a word or phrase.

Repetition 

300

True or False. Poetry can tell a story.

True

300

Explains what a picture is about.

Caption

300

This is the author's purpose of a newspaper article about the dangers of playing video games all day is

To inform

300

This gives details about the time and place that the story took place.

Setting

300

Words that form sounds.

Onomatopoeia 

400

A group of words, they go from the left to the right and may or may not have punctuation at the end.

A line

400

Located in the back of the book and tells what page number to find specific information. 

Index

400

The author's purpose in Caterpillar Summer?

To entertain

400

Lines that are spoken between two or more characters.

Dialogue

400

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.

Personification

500

When a line of a poem ends without punctuation and another starts on the next line.

Line break

500

Located in the front of the book and gives the page numbers of the topics.

Table of contents

500

A book titled "Cars, Then and Now" would more likely be written to

inform

500

The person who carries the story along.

The narrator

500

Comparing, saying one thing is something else.

Metaphor

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