Drama/Poetry
the person who wrote the drama/play
What is a playwright?
Conversation between two or more people, usually using quotation marks.
What is dialogue?
The main point the author is trying to make.
What is central idea?
What is main idea?
What is key idea?
When a character's exact words are repeated.
What is a quotation?
When you use clues from the text and background knowledge to draw a conclusion.
What is infer?
What is make an inference?
a group of characters in the play.
What is a cast?
A poem that has no patterns: rhyme, meter, beat
What is argumentative?
A sentence that tells what the story is about; main idea or central idea of an essay.
What is topic sentence?
The person who is telling the story.
What is the narrator?
The place of action of a play; the setting.
What is a scene?
The message or lesson the author wants you to learn from a literary story.
What is the theme?
What is a claim?
I am as happy as a clam.
What is a simile?
A short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.
What is an anecdote?
A group of lines in a poem similar to a paragraph of a text.
What is a stanza?
What is plot?
The point of view shown here:
I couldn't wait to take the STAAR test. I needed to prove to everyone that I learned so much this year thanks to my fantastic teacher. She is the best teacher anyone can ever ask for. Because of her, I am going to master this test, easy peasy.
What is first person?
Language that the author uses to describe, usually using their five senses.
What is sensory language?
A type of figurative language that gives human characteristics to something that is not human.
What is personification?
What is meter?
The most exciting or the worst part of the story, right before there is a shift. The turning point.
What is the climax?
The point of view of the following text:
"I am so ready for this test!" William shouted. "So am I!" chimed in Brisa, Ximena, and Jase. The children knew that they were about to embark on great success as they got ready to take their fourth grade reading and writing STAAR test.
What is third person?
How the author connects ideas together.
What is coherence?
A talk between two or more people, in which news and ideas are exchanged.
What is a conversation?