Text Structure
The signal words are such as, for instance, in addition.
What is description?
A person, place or thing.
What is a noun?
A phrase that means what it means, even if it doesn't make sense.
What is idiom?
The central concern or problem of a story.
What is conflict?
To add/take notes to text
What is annotation?
The signal words as opposed to, on the other hand, in contrast.
What is compare and contrast?
Indicates a pause between parts of a sentence, used to separate items in a list, and to mark the place of thousands in a large numeral.
What is a comma?
Makes a non-human thing seem human.
What is personification?
Where the story takes place.
What is setting?
The sentence that establishes the main idea of the paragraph or essay.
What is topic sentence?
The signal words are as a result, issue, since, and leads to.
What is problem and solution?
Describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
The repetition of a sound in a sentence.
What is alliteration?
The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work.
What is plot?
Exactly what a word means.
What is literal?
The signal words are because, as a result of, leads to, and therefore.
What is cause and effect?
Used either to mark the beginning and end of a title or quoted passage.
What are quotation marks?
A word that sounds like the noise or action it is describing.
What is onomatopoeia?
The action of solving a problem.
What is resolution?
A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning
What is inference?
The signal words are before, after, finally, and following.
What is sequence?
An action word.
What is a verb?
What is hyperbole?
A protagonist or antagonist.
What are characters?
A feature or quality belonging typically to a person, place, or thing and serving to identify it
What is a characteric?