Comprehension (Literary Texts)
This is the message or the lesson of the story.
What is theme?
This is the main idea of a passage.
What is central idea?
The prefix "un-" means this.
What is not?
The people or animals in a story are called this.
What are characters?
This type of figurative language involves giving human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
This text structure gives details about a topic.
What is description?
Using this strategy helps you understand unfamiliar words by looking at the words around it.
What is a context clue?
This is where and when the story takes places.
What is compare?
The character's internal struggle, often shown through thoughts, feelings, or emotions.
What is conflict?
What the author believes or feels about a topic.
The author includes another word with the same or similar meaning.
What is a synonym.
A story told using "I" or "me" is written in this point of view.
What is first-person point of view?
This means to tell how things are different.
What is contrast?
What is character development?
In this text structure, the information is presented in a series of steps.
What is sequence of events?
The author includes another word with the opposite meaning.
What is an antonym?
A story told where the narrator is on the outside of the story.
What is third-person point of view?
This means to tell how the narrator feels.
What is narrators point of view?
Comparing 2 things using like or as.
What is a similie?
This type of text feature tells what the section of the text is going to be about.
What is a heading?
A word part at the beginning of a word.
What is a prefix?
What does it mean when literary elements contribute to the plot?
What is cause something to happen in the story?
This is the repetition of syllables at the end of a verse line.
What is rhyme?