Nonfiction Structure
The way the author would organize a text if he/she was writing a biography.
What is chronological order?
The message, the moral, or the lesson in a story.
What is the theme?
What is rhyme?
Another name for drama
What is a play or a skit?
Making a guess using the clues from the text and your schema
What is an inference?
What is cause and effect?
The turning point in the story.
What is climax?
The beat
What is rhythm?
Helps the actors know when they are to say their dialogues
What are character tags?
Telling just the important ideas in a text.
What is a summary?
In this type of text, the author presents a struggle that is faced and also an approach to handle the struggle.
What is problem/solution?
The setting and characters are introduced in this part of the text.
What is the exposition?
Lines put together. Also known as a paragraph for a poem.
What is a stanza?
Tells the actors what to do or where to move on stage?
Creating a mental picture or movie in your head.
What is visualizing?
The author describes and tells how two or more items are the same or different.
What is compare/contrast?
Another name for the problem in the story.
What is a conflict?
The poet is selective with the words he/she uses. The words help the reader visualize.
What is sensory/figurative language?
Known as a chapter in a drama.
What is a scene or an act?
Using what you already know.
What is schema?
Another name for sequence.
What is process?
The problem in the story has been solved.
What is a resolution?
When words start with the same sounds.
What is alliteration?
Another name for the person telling the story.
What is a narrator?
Putting all the information in the text together.
What is synthesizing?