Text Structure
Figurative Language
Short Story Elements
Grab Bag
100

This is the text structure you would find in a history textbook. It provides a timeline of when things happened. 

What is Chronological?

100
busy as a bee
What is simile?
100

What is the theme of a story? 

The lesson or the message. 

100
This is when information is not given to you directly in a story.
What is inference?
200
The signal words for this text structure are therefore, for this reason, and accordingly.
What is Cause and Effect?
200
You are what you eat.
What is metaphor?
200

This can be internal or external in a short story (fiction).

What is conflict? Name them for bonus 50 points each. There are a total of 3 external and 1 internal. 

200
Children should be seen not heard is an example of this.
What is an opinion?
300
This is the text structure used in a book about ancient Greece that may explain how the Spartan women were different from the Athenian women.
What is Comparison and Contrast?
300
My teddy bear gave me a hug.
What is personification?
300

What are the three types of author's purpose?

Persuade, Inform, Entertain
300
signal words that show this type of internal text: always and never
What is generalization internal text structure:
400

This internal text structure can be found in an encyclopedia and tells the explanation or description of a concept or topic by using synonyms and signal words

What is concept/definition.

400
She sells seashells by the seashore.
What is alliteration?
400
The part of the story that will give whether it was during a war or before there were cell phones.
What is setting?
400
The following are examples of what figurative language?: a rose = love, dove=peace, horseshoe=good luck
What is symbol?
500

How to in the process of the following steps are the signal words for this text structure.

What is Process or Sequence?

500
He was so hungry, he ate that whole cornfield for lunch, stalks and all.
What is hyperbole?
500

A static character does not change in the story. True or fale? 

True

500
the story is told from an all knowing narrative voice outside the story-NOT by one of the characters, and uses pronouns like she, he, they, it, etc.
What is Third Person Omniscient Point of View?
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