Text Structure
In which text structure does the author provide similarities and differences between two or more subjects?
Compare and Contrast
What is the author’s purpose if he or she is trying to convince you of something?
Persuade
First Person Point of View
What type of figurative language uses the words like or as to compare two objects?
Simile
In which book did a character hide under a sofa and write his will?
Memoirs of a Hamster
In which text structure does the author provide information about an issue and ways to fix it?
Problem and Solution
What is the author’s purpose if he or she is giving you a lot of facts?
Inform
When you put the story in your own words and tell a shortened version.
Summarize
What type of figurative language uses sound words?
Onomatopoeia
In which book was the setting in New Orleans?
Trombone Shorty
In which text structure does an author tell what happened and why it happened?
Cause and Effect
What is the author’s purpose if he or she is trying to make you feel something?
Entertain
The moral or lesson of the story.
Theme
What figurative language is an extreme exaggeration?
Hyperbole
In which book did the character try to ruin his school picture?
Picture Day Perfection
Which text structure uses clue words such as first, then, and finally?
Chronology
What is the author’s purpose: Come on down to Fish-O-Rama where we have the best seafood in town!
Persuade
What point of view is told by an outsider in the story and uses words like he, she, and they?
Third person point of view
What type of figurative language uses the same beginning letter of a word more than once in a sentence?
Alliteration
In which book did animals try to persuade a man in his sleep?
The Great Kapok Tree
In which text structure does the author tell the events in the order in which they happened?
Chronology
What is this author's purpose: The bearded dragon is native to Australia and is a cold-blooded reptile.
Inform
Bits of information that support the main idea are called what?
Details
What type of figurative language is a figure of speech or saying, not meant to be taken literally?
Idiom
In which book did a woman try to help the poor?
The House that Jane Built