This is what the text is about, usually supported by details.
What is the main idea?
100
This is a statement that tells what a person thinks or believes.
What is an opinion?
100
This part of speech takes the place of a noun, like him, her me, or we.
What is a pronoun?
200
This is telling what happened in the story using only a few words.
What is summarizing?
200
This is a type of literature that has verse, rhythm and meter.
What is a poem?
200
This is when a text states things in a specific order.
What is what is sequence or chronology?
200
This is a statement that is supported by proof.
What is a fact?
200
This part of speech tells where, when, why, and how things are done.
What is an adverb?
300
These are the events in a story, including introduction, rising action, climax, and resolution.
What is the plot?
300
This genre of literature includes a cast of characters, settings, descriptions, dialog, and stage directions.
What is a drama?
300
This standard explains what happens and why it happens.
What is cause and effect?
300
This is the reason(s) a person writes a piece of text, including to persuade, inform, entertain, and to express a feeling or idea..
What is author's purpose?
300
This is a comparison using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
400
This is where and when a story takes place.
What is the setting?
400
In this, a story is told from the point of view of the narrator.
What is third person?
400
This explains how things are alike.
What is compare?
400
This is the process that includes planning, prewriting, revising, editing, and publishing.
What is the writing process?
400
This is a comparison between two unlike things, that says one thing is the other.
What is a metaphor?
500
This is what happens when you are able to use the text to figure out an answer, even though it doesn't come right out and say it.
What is inferring?
500
In this, the story is told from the point of view of a character. (Clues are that the text uses the pronouns "me", "I", "we"...)
What is first person.
500
This explains how things are different.
What is contrast?
500
Types of these include exclamatory, interrogative, declarative, and command.
What are sentences?
500
This is a figure of speech that describes a situation using words combinations that have a different meaning than the literal meaning of each word (it's raining cats and dogs, I got up on the wrong side of the bed).