In poetry the voice that "talks" to you through the poem.
What is speaker or narrator?
100
The written conversation between two or more charcters. In drama, stories are told primarily through this.
What is dialogue?
100
What do you use to help you define words that you don't understand?
What are context clues?
100
A made up (fake) story.
What is fiction?
100
A "true" story.
What is non-fiction?
200
A group of two or more lines that form a unit in a poem. It is also compared to a paragraph in other forms of genre.
What is stanza?
200
Given in the script of a play and appearing in parentheses and in italic type: these are the instructions given to the actors, director, and stage crew.
What are stage directions?
200
A comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as.
What is simile?
200
Something that can be proven by research, evidence, or observation.
What are facts?
200
Something that is a belief or thought. Cannot be proven.
What is an opinion?
300
A comparison of two unlike things without using the words like or as.
What is metaphor?
300
The time and place of a story.
What is setting?
300
The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea.
What is personification?
300
A message about life or human nature that a writer wants you to understand. The point the writer is trying to make. Ex: "Even a hero can fail" or "An act of kindness can make a difference in a person's life"
What is theme?
300
The author uses these to give extra information and to help the reader locate information.
What are text features?
400
A figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphsis or humorous effect.
What is hyperbole?
400
The voice that tells or carries the story by using such things as "I", "me" and "my".
What is a first-person narrator?
400
Another word for your prior knowledge (also known as Mrs. Winter's favorite word)
What is your "schema"?
400
A logical guess that is made based on information an author gives you and your own knowledge and experience.
What is inference?
400
The story of a person's life written by someone else.
What is biography?
500
Words that represent sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
The voice that tells or carries the story by using things such as the character's names or "they".
What is third-person narrator?
500
The steps for the Reading STAAR Test? (250 points for each answer)
Read, Re-Read, create margin notes and/or summarize, and prove all answers with textual evidence.
500
Author's write to: inform, persuade, entertain, explain, or express thoughts or feelings.
What is author's purpose?
500
List the types of text features (250 points for each)
title
heading
subheading
graph/chart/diagram
bolded words
photograph/captions