Poetry
Drama
Author's Craft
Strategies
Name the Word
100
Poetry without rhyme or structure
What is free verse?
100
This is another name for a drama
What is a play?
100
Describes things using the five senses
What is imagery?
100
To inform, influence, express, and entertain or all examples of this
What is author's purpose?
100
Why something happened in a story
What is cause?
200
A poem that rhyme and has a certain beat
What is a lyrical poem?
200
This is what actors read to learn their lines in a play
What is a script?
200
Uses like or as to compare two things
What are similes?
200
Another name for the main idea of a sentence
What is topic sentence?
200
What happened in the story
What is effect?
300
Words that express what you see, feel, smell, hear, or taste in a poem
What is sensory detail?
300
In a drama, this (Sit on the couch and thumb through the newspaper.) is an example of _______?
What is stage directions?
300
Sensory language that doesn't use like or as to compare two things
What are metaphors?
300
Telling the main events in a passage, including something from the beginning, middle, and the end
What is a summary?
300
Words at the top of a dictionary page
What are guide words?
400
A group of lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
400
The scenery or background of a stage including furniture, wall covering, curtains, and trees are all ________?
What are props?
400
When authors give human like characteristics to non-human items
What is a personification?
400
When you draw a conclusion about a statement, you are really making an ________?
What is inference?
400
The most interesting or exciting part of a story
What is the climax?
500
Sentences that end in the middle of a sentence
What is a line break?
500
A play is broken up into sections call ________?
What are acts?
500
Figurative language that has a different meaning together than what the words mean individually. For example, "I am in hot water."
What is an idiom?
500
Techniques to figure out unknown words in passages
What is context clues?
500
How authors organize stories (dates, compare/contrast, cause/effect, problem resolution, and list)
What are text structures?
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