Dramas (Plays)
What is dialogue?
This type of poem has rhythm and some rhymes.
What is rhymed verse?
This can include free verse, rhymed verse, haikus and limericks.
What are poems (poetry)?
This is the suffix in the word restful.
What is -ful?
This text feature can answer "where" questions.
What is a map?
Figurative language is NOT to be taken in this way.
What is literally?
What are stage directions?
This 3-line poem is often about nature.
What is a haiku?
This genre can have dialogue, character tags, and stage directions.
What is a play or drama?
This suffix means "without"
What is -less?
The text feature that gives readers extra information about the topic that the author could not include in the main part of the text.
What is a sidebar?
An example of this type of figurative language is:
"Susie sweeps swiftly to sweet songs."
What is alliteration?
This feature tells which character should speak.
MINNIE MOUSE: Hi, Mickey! It's nice to see you!
MICKEY MOUSE: You, too, Minnie!
What is a character tag?
The pattern of rhymes in a poem. Letters are often used to show which lines rhyme.
What is a rhyme scheme?
This genre is a nonfiction text about a person's life, written by another person.
What is a biography?
This Latin root means "three"
What is tri?
Authors write text in this way to show the reader that a word is important.
What is bolded text?
An example of this type of figurative language is:
"We were waiting forever for our turn on the ride!"
What is a hyperbole?
All of the characters in a play. They are usually played by actors.
What are cast of characters?
This type of poem does not have a specific rhyme scheme or form.
What is free verse?
This genre provides facts about a topic and is told as a story.
What is narrative nonfiction?
This is what the Latin root "aqua" means.
What is water?
This text feature that shows important events can be drawn horizontally or vertically.
What is a timeline?
An example of this type of figurative language is:
"Life is a highway."
What is a metaphor?
The person who tells what happens during the play. They usually sit on the stage but are not a character in the play.
What is the narrator?
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
This genre includes true events that are set in the past, but the characters are made up.
What is historical fiction?
This Latin root means to hear or listen.
What is aud?
This text feature divides sections of a text and helps the reader preview what the next section will be about.
What is a heading or subheading?
An example of this type of figurative language is:
"The dish fell from the top of the cabinet with a loud clang."
What is an onomatopoeia?