Genre
What genre am I?
I am a fiction story that has a plot that could happen in the real world.
What is realistic fiction?
What reference material am I?
I give the definition of words.
What is a dictionary?
What am I?
She was as happy as a clam.
What is simile?
What text structure am I?
I am used in news articles or opinion essays where I describe a problem and how to solve it.
What is problem/solution?
Find the prepositional phrase in the sentence.
The cat is under the bed.
What is under the bed?
What genre am I?
I am a story about a person's life written by someone else.
What is biography?
What reference material am I?
I give the synonyms and antonyms of words.
What is a thesaurus?
What am I?
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!
What is hyperbole?
What text structure am I?
I describe how things are alike and different.
What is compare/contrast?
What is the text feature?
This text feature gives a short description of a picture to let the reader know what is happening in the picture. It is usually found below the picture.
What is caption?
What genre am I?
I am a fiction story that has a setting and characters from an imaginary universe.
What is fantasy?
What reference material am I?
I am a collection of maps.
What is an atlas?
What am I?
You are a star!
What is metaphor?
What text structure am I?
I explain events in order.
What is sequence or chronological?
What is this text structure?
This text structure paints a picture for the reader by using lots of detail to describe the characters, plot, and setting of a story.
What is descriptive text structure?
What genre am I?
I am a fiction story that takes place in the past. The events in the past setting have actually happened, but the characters are fictional.
What is historical fiction?
What reference material am I?
I give lots of factual information and knowledge about a subject.
What is an encyclopedia?
What am I?
"Pow!" "Buzz!" "Bam!"
What is onomatopoeia?
What text structure am I?
I explain what happened and why it happened.
What is cause/effect?
What is the genre?
This type of genre often rhymes and is used to express imagination or emotion.
What is poetry?
What genre am I?
This text gives factual information about a certain topic.
What is informational or nonfiction?
What reference material am I?
I am a mini dictionary in the back of a textbook that gives the definitions to unfamiliar words.
What is a glossary?
What am I?
The flowers danced in the wind.
What is personification?
True or False: Identifying text structure can help better understand an author's purpose.
First person or third person POV?
I woke up this morning and the first thing I did was brush my teeth.
What is first person POV?