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Nonfiction Strategy
Text Structure
Genre
100
Your schema and what you read helps you make
What is inferences.
100
A literary device that uses like or as to compare two things.
What is simile.
100
The key thing the author is trying to communicate to his readers in a nonfiction text is the...
What is main or central idea.
100
Tells how things are different or alike.
What is compare and contrast.
100
A genre that is fiction, but feels like it could really happen.
What is realistic fiction
200
This includes your main idea and three supporting details. It tells what the text was about.
What is a summary
200
A device that uses extreme exaggeration to make things more interesting.
What is hyperbole.
200
In fiction the moral or lesson in a story is...
What is the theme.
200
Tells us how the order of events or a timeline.
What is chronolgy
200
A made up story with animals that teaches us a lesson.
What is fable.
300
These words help us figure out unknown word meanings or vocab we don't know.
What is context clues.
300
A device that gives nonhuman things human character traits
What is personification
300
In fiction, characters actions and thoughts tell us their...
What is character traits.
300
Tells us the reason why something happened and what happens as a result.
What is cause and effect.
300
A nonfiction article telling us how to fix our car.
What is informational text.
400
The picture or video that is playing in our heads when we read a story.
What is imagery
400
A device that compares two things.
What is metaphor
400
In fiction the problem of the story or of the characters is...
What is conflict.
400
Tells us something that has gone wrong and how to fix it.
What is problem and solution.
400
A story written about someone famous written by a family member?
What is biography.
500
These four types help show us how the author organizes or writes a nonfiction article.
What is text structure.
500
The reason why authors use literary devices.
What is to make things more interesting for us (the readers).
500
We use this to help support or back up or thoughts or ideas?
What is text evidence.
500
What helps you figure out the text structure?
What is signal words.
500
A nonfiction article written to convince us to lower the voting age to 14 years old.
What is persuasive writing.