Reading Fiction
The location and time of a story
What is the setting?
The title, glossary, illustrations, captions, sidebars, and headings are called this.
What are text features?
What is a hyperbole? Give an example.
An extreme exaggeration
I love going to baseball games they are so much fun.
The incorrect sentence above is an example of this type of sentence.
What is a run-on sentence?
"I was hovering in the air, way above the school."
What is the meaning of the word hovering as it is used in the sentence above?
What is hanging?
These are the elements of every fictional story.
What are characters, setting, problem, and solution?
This is a short version of the story that includes just the important details.
What is the summary?
"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room." is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is personification?
This is the action part of the sentence.
What is the predicate/ verb?
The message of the lesson the author wants you to learn.
What is an inference?
Background knowledge + text evidence
What is the difference between text structure and text features?
Text structure is how text is organized; text features are pictures, diagrams, headings, etc. that help the reader understand the text.
The 3 things that are author's purpose.
Persuade, Inform, Entertain
A word that describes a noun
What is an adjective?
It's raining cats and dogs is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is an idiom?
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator or using words like "I" or "me".
What is the point of view (POV)?
This is what the passage is mostly about?
What is the main idea?
To describe how things are alike and how they are different
What is compare and contrast?
A person place or thing.
What is a noun?
Someone who has a Herculean complex, thinks he or she is very____________.
What is strong?
What is a plot?
The main events of a drama, book, movie, etc. that consists of an exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
Chronological order, sequence of events, problem and solution are all examples of this.
What is text structure or how the text is organized?
Which figurative language is the following sentence?
She is a tornado when she gets angry!
Metaphor
What two punctation marks are used when showing dialogue?
Quotation marks and comma
When something has a strong effect on someone or something.
What is an impact?