Drama
Poetry
Informational
Text features
Figurative language
100

The time and place in the play  

 Setting 

100

A group of lines within a poem 

Stanza 

100

The reason an author makes choices to write a text or include certain language or text features

Author’s purpose 

100

Information about a picture 

Caption 

100

A comparison using like or as 

Simile 

200

Written instructions telling the actors what to do 

Stage Directions 

200

the author of a poem 

Poet

200

The intended group of people the author is addressing through a text

Audience 

200

A real picture included in a text 

Photograph 

200

A comparison not using like or as 

Metaphor 

300

The person who tells what happens during the play 

Narrator 

300

A group of words arranged into a row

Line
300

The author’s position on a topic 

Claim

300

A drawn or illustrated picture in a text 

Illustration 

300

The same sound or letter at the beginning of words or lines

Alliteration 

400

The action that takes place in a single setting  

 Scene 

400

Lines of poems which words that end with the same sound 

Rhyme scheme 

400

The main of a text 

Central idea 

400

_______name’s the topic of each section of text.

Heading and subheadings 

400

A word that imitates the sound it represents 

Onomatopoeia 

500

The words said by characters 

Dialogue 

500

The use of language that has meaning beyond what the words actually say 

Figurative language 

500

Explains why something happened and what happened as a result 

Cause and effect 

500

A list of facts or numbers arranged in a special order usually in columns and rows 

Table 

500

A figure of speech which exaggerates the meaning of a sentence 

Hyperbole