Story Elements
Text Features
Miscelaneous
Writing
Reading
100
What are the people in stories referred to as?
what are characters?
100
The vocabulary words listed in the back of the book is called?
What is a Glossary
100
This is when 2 words means the same thing
What is a synonym?
100
What is this called ,
comma
100
The reason the author writes about something is called
What is the author's purpose?
200
What is the name of the person who writes the story?
what is the author
200
A picture with labels is called what in a nonfiction book?
What is a diagram.
200
This figurative language is being used in this sentence “The boy was like a lion because he was so courageous”
What is a Simile?
200
What type of sentence asks a question
interrogative
200
This is a short version of the story that includes just the important details.
What is the summary?
300
What is the ending of a story called?
resolution or conclusion
300
Name one type of text feature.
headings/title/subtitles/pictures/graphs/sidebars/captions
300
Setting tells what two things?
Time and Place
300
This word is the name for sound words. Ex. Bang, Boom, Crash"
Onomatopoeia
300
What text structure would I use when teaching someone how to bake a cake.
Sequence/Steps/Chronological
400
What the author is trying to teach you?
What is theme.
400
What do you call information that is not a part of the story but is related to the story?
Sidebar
400
What does sensory details include?
What is details that help you see, hear, smell, taste and feel
400
What type of sentence gives a command?
Imperative
400
Fiction means...
A story is not real
500
What are the paragraphs in a poem called? and what are the sentences called?
Stanzas and Lines
500
What is a table of contents
Tells what each chapter is about and what page it starts on.
500
This is what you call a story you write about your own life.
What is an Autobiography
500
What is the preposition in the sentence below.
Every year, we dance with my friends near the big pond.
Preposition: Near
500
Non-fiction means...
The story is true
600
What are the characters in a play called?
Cast
600
What is the difference between a picture and an illustration
A picture is of something real and taken with a camera. An illustration is a drawing.
600
What does the theme tell you?
The lesson learned or the author's message
600
Give an example of both a simile and a metaphor
Answers may vary
600
The parts of a drama that let the actors/cast know what to do.
Stage directions
700
Name 3 character traits
responsible, kind, loving... answers may vary
700
The person who tells a story is called what?
The person who is speaking in a poem is called what?
Who is the narrator?
Who is the speaker?
700
What is an adjective?
Describes a noun
700
What is the mood of a story?
They way the author wants you to feel when you read the story.
700
What the story is mainly about?
Main idea
800
What are the things that are happening in the story called, the 1 word for the problem and solution?
plot
800
Graph
800
This is what we call a short statement of the main points of a story.
What is main idea or central idea?
800
How the author feels about a topic is known as...
What is the author's point of view or perspective?
800
To describe how things are alike and how they are different
What is compare and contrast?