Text Structure
Using clues in the story and what you already know to make an educated guess about what is happening in the story.
A. Alliteration
B. Maid Idea
C. Infernece
What is inference?
The place or places where the story happens.
A. Characters
B. Fantasy
C. Setting
What is setting?
Words that imitate sound (sound effect words).
A. Hyperbole
B. Homophone
C. Onomatopeia
What is a onomatopeia?
Bold words that state what the sections or paragraph will be about.
A. Title
B. Glossary
C. Headings
What are headings?
A word that has the opposite meaning of another word.
A. Homophone
B. Synonym
C. Antonym
What is an antonym?
Tell how things are alike and how they are different.
A. Compare and Contrast
B. Summarizing
C. Sequence
What is compare and contrast?
The people, animals, or creatures in a story.
A. Narrator
B. Characters
C. Author
What are characters?
2 or more words that begin with the same sound.
A. Onomatopeia
B. Alliteration
C. Rhyming
What is alliteration?
Words that tell about a specific part of a picture or diagram.
A. Captions
B. Table of Contents
C. Labels
What are labels?
Different words and literary devices that poets use to enhance their writing.
A. Imagery
B. Figurative language
C. Inference
What is figurative language?
What a text or paragraph is mostly about, supported by details in the story.
A. Problem
B. Main Idea
C. Plot
What is the main idea?
The lesson, message, or moral the author wants you to learn.
A. Theme
B. Main Idea
C. Inference
What is theme?
A portion of a poem, like a paragraph, often grouped by lines or rhyme scheme.
A. Metaphor
B. Stanza
C. Repetition
What is a stanza?
Sentences describing a photograph. Tells who, what, and when.
A. Captions
B. Diagram
C. Heading
What are captions?
Words that have the same meaning.
A. Synonym
B. Homophone
C. Antonym
What are synonyms?
The order of events in a story (first, next, last).
A. Summarizing
B. Setting
C. Sequence
What is sequence?
The way the author, narrator, character, or reader views a particular piece of writing (can be listed as 1st, 2nd, or 3rd).
A. Author's Purpose
B. Point of view
C. Personification
What is point of view?
Compares unlike things using like or as.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
What is simile?
List of new or important words in the book with their definition.
A. Dictionary
B. Glossary
C. Table of Contents
What is a glossary?
The person speaking telling a story or poem. It can be the author of the story or poem, a character, or someone else.
A. Character
B. Author
C. Narrator
What is the narrator?
Tell what happened in your own words.
What is summary?
What happens in the beginning, middle and end of a story (Somebody Wanted But So Then).
A. Summary
B. Plot
C. Sequence
What is plot?
Extreme exaggeration to make a point.
A. Idiom
B. Repetition
C. Hyperbole
What is hyperbole?
What is this an example of?
Ch. 1 The Kitten Sale Pg. 11
Ch. 2 The Brickers' Other Pet Pg. 33
Ch. 3 Sock and the Formula Pg. 56
Ch. 4 The Evening Sitter Came Pg. 77
A. Table of Contents
B. Chapters
C. Glossary
What is the table of contents?
Words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings.
A. Synonym
B. Metaphor
C. Homophone
What are homophones?