Poetry
This means sound words like BAM! Swoosh! BEEP! Honk!
What is onomotopiea?
A text describes events and and makes connections for why the event happened
What is Cause and Effect?
When a writer writes about another person's life.
What is biography?
A part of a play with a single setting and a group of characters. It is similar to a chapter in a book.
What is a scene?
This is located at the front of the book that tells you where to find a chapter or story
What is the table of contents?
This means a repeated beginning sound in a line. The big, blue balloon burst in the sky.
What is alliteration?
When a conflict happens and needs to be figured out.
What is problem and solution
A short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.
What is a fable?
These are normally italicized (slanted) and in parenthesis (). This tells what the characters do.
What are stage directions?
Located at the back of the book and will tell you where to find a certain word or topic
What is the index?
Poetry uses these instead of paragraphs.
What are stanzas?
The big idea or life lesson of a story
What is the theme?
When the story is made up but could happen in real life.
What is Realistic Fiction
This word means at least two people are talking
Dialogue
Describes a photograph or illustration
What is a caption?
Poetry that does not rhyme
What is free verse?
Similarities and differences of characters, settings, or plots?
What is Compare and Contrast
The story is made up, it is not real.
What is Fiction
A speaking part that is not a character in the story and may provide additional details
What is a Narrator?
Bolded headings that give clues to what the paragraphs that follow will be about.
What are subtitles or subheadings?
A 3-line poem (5-7-5) that originated in Japan, and it’s usually about nature.
What is a haiku?
The order in which events take place in a story
What is Sequence?
A story or legend about larger than life characters that contains hyperbole
What is a Tall Tale?
This is a list of all of the parts in the play
Cast of characters
Two examples of text features in an expository text other than the text itself.
What are diagrams, graphs, illustrations, photographs, captions, timelines, tables and charts?