Poetry
One line in a poem.
What is a verse?
The time and place when something happens.
What is the setting?
List of characters in a play.
What is the cast of characters?
A short story that teaches a lesson (think Aesop)
What are fables?
What a text is mostly about.
What is the main idea?
A group of verses in a poem.
What is a stanza?
Animals or people in the story.
What are characters.
The written text that actors read from.
What is a script?
A story that is ageless and anonymous; usually spoken.
What is a folktale?
THE MEssage the authors wants the reader to get from a text.
What is the theme?
Words that have the same ending sounds.
What are rhyming words.
The person who writes prose is called this.
What is an author?
Conversations characters have with one another.
What is dialogue?
A story that explains human behavior or a scientific phenomenon; characters have superhuman powers.
What are myths?
These descriptions support a main idea.
What are key details?
True or False:
A poem can have a setting.
What is true?
Details about the setting, characters, and events.
What are descriptions?
Instructions for the actors on where to go, how to speak.
What are stage directions?
A tale involving a character who is tricked or tricks someone else.
What is a trickster tale?
This type of writing tells the reader what you think, feel, or believe about a topic.
What is opinion writing?
What are the rhyming words in these verses:
I cannot go to school today,
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
What are today and McKay?
A main division in a novel.
What is a chapter?
An object used by actors performing in a play.
What are props?
Information texts that give real, true facts.
What is nonfiction?
This type of writing explains a topic.
What is expository writing?