Story Elements
Poetry Terms
Forms of Poetry
Author's Purpose
Reading Terms
100
Where and when a story takes place.
What is setting
100
A verse in poetry.
What is a line?
100
A poem that is specifically written to make you laugh.
What is humorous poetry?
100
Why someone would write fiction.
What is entertain?
100
Using information in the text to figure out the meaning.
What are context clues?
200
The lesson the character learns in the story that you can apply to your own life.
What is theme?
200
The intentional end of a line of poetry.
What is line break?
200
A poem which tells a story and has characters, setting, and plot.
What is narrative poetry?
200
A commercial in a magazine.
What is persuade?
200
Making a prediction and drawing a conclusion are forms of this.
What is making an inference?
300
A person or animal in a story.
What is a character?
300
Two words or lines which end in the same sound.
What is rhyme?
300
A poem with no meter, no rhyme, and short lines.
What is a free verse poem?
300
Why someone would write about the Texas Revolution.
What is inform?
300
The words spoken in a drama.
What is dialogue?
400
The basic sequence of events in a story.
What is plot?
400
Division of a poem composed of two or more lines characterized by meter, rhyme, and number of lines.
What is a stanza?
400
A poem with a song like quality that is about feelings, emotions, and moods.
What is Lyrical Poetry
400
How to make pancakes.
What is explain?
400
To reduce large sections of text to their essential points and main ideas.
What is summarize?
500
In a 3rd person telling of the story, the one telling the story is called this.
What is the narrator?
500
The basic rhythmic structure in verse, composed of stressed and unstressed syllables. The movement of words in a poem.
What is meter?
500
Haiku, limerick, and diamante poems fit this category.
What are lyrical poems?
500
Why someone would write a biography.
What is to inform?
500
When a character in the story is the one telling the story from their point of view.
What is first person?
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