Text Structures
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Name That Literary Device
100
This text structure usually talks about two things and how they are alike and different.
What is compare and contrast?
100
Mr. Liu's examples in informational texts usually centered around this restaurant.
What is McDonald's?
100
Before you do anything else (assume that you read the passage).
What is reading the question (or some variation)?
100
Piers Morgan and Jessie Ventura debated this issue in a segment we watched in class.
What is gun control?
100
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
What is alliteration?
200
This text structure discusses how something works or how something happens.
What is cycle or what is process?
200
The grandfather who used to whip his grandsons with his cane.
Who is Papa Red?
200
After you read the question.
What is label/number the parts of the question? OR What is the question asking me to do?
200
In non-fiction texts, this can be a short story to grab the reader's attention or to make the reader feel sympathy for a cause.
What is an anecdote?
300
This text structure discusses how something that happened a long time ago is related to something going on today.
What is then and now?
300
In the story with the dog narrator, how does the narrator die?
What is drowning (or anything related to falling in the river)?
300
After labeling the parts of the question.
What is underline the evidence from the passage to use in the response?
300
This NFL team is the only major American sports team named as an allusion to a work of literature.
What is The Ravens?
300
Pastoral scene of the gallant South, The bulging eyes, and the twisted mouth.
What is contrasting image or What is rhyme?
400
This fiction text structure discusses an event and talks about what happened after it.
What is cause and effect
400
This leader finally eats the giant burrito served by Salvador Vigo.
Who is El Presidente?
400
After finding the evidence in the passage.
What is answer the question?
400
This international technology icon first dropped out of college to work as a computer programmer.
Who is Bill Gates?
400
When an author writes a character's speech to sound like the way the character might talk. For example, "I'se been climbing..."
What is dialect?
500
This is the most common fictional text structure.
What is problem/solution?
500
In the beginning of the year, we discussed "theme" with a poem in which a boy finally beats his father at this.
What is arm-wrestling?
500
After you answer the question.
What is re-read and make sure you answered the question?
500
Mr. Rosenthal's key-chain features these characters, based on the popular smart-phone game.
What are Angry Birds?
500
When we can tell the way an author feels about a subject, we describe it with this literary device.
What is tone?
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