Story Elements
This is when/where the story takes place.
What is the setting?
Personification is this.
What is giving human qualities to things and ideas that are not humans?
This is a type of comparison that uses the words "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
This type of story includes real events from a person's life, but it's written by someone else.
What is a biography?
This part of speech is a person, place, thing.
What is a noun?
This is what chronological order means.
What is time order - from what happened first to what happened last?
We do this to "use context clues" to determine what something means.
What is use surrounding details from the text to understand what you're reading?
Onomatopoeia is one element used in poetry. It means this.
What are sound words?
This is why an author might include a map in a text about hedgehogs.
What is to show the reader where hedgehogs live?
This part of speech is usually an action word.
What is a verb?
The series of events in a story from beginning to end.
What is the plot?
A group of lines in a poem that the author uses to keep topics together.
What is a stanza?
These two words are what you call it when you compare and contrast two unalike things.
What are metaphor and simile?
Give 3 examples of text features.
What are bold print/vocabulary terms, glossary, pictures, captions, headings, graphs/tables/diagrams, bullet points, etc.?
This part of speech describes a noun or pronoun.
Ex: The tired teacher cheered for the smart students.
What is an adjective?
The point of view text that uses: I, me, my, we, us
What is First Person Point of View?
This genre is a story about a real place and real characters.
What is non-fiction?
This is what it's called when the ends of words have the same sound.
What is rhyme?
This is what the story is mostly about. It is what an author wants the reader to learn about a topic.
What is the Main or Central Idea?
Find the adverb in this sentence:
I was feeling hungry, so I quickly made myself a delicious sandwich.
What is quickly?
Words that have the same or similar meaning are called this.
What are synonyms?
This is what it is called when you tell ways somethings are alike.
What is comparing?
This is language that an author or poet uses to help you see, feel, hear, smell, or taste what is happening in the passage or poem.
What is sensory language?
Compare and Contrast
Sequence of Events
Problem and Resolution
Description
Cause and Effect
These are a few examples of this.
What is Text Structure?
These sentences use a specific kind of figurative language.
The book was so popular it flew off the shelves. The last piece of pie was calling my name.
What is personification - giving human qualities to things and ideas that are not humans?