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Literary Texts
Informational Texts
Vocabulary
Figurative Language
Writing
100
The location and time in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
100
A list of words and definitions.
What is the glossary?
100
A word that means almost the same thing.
What is a synonym?
100
"The tiny white flowers dotted the morning mountainside like patches of snow" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
100
A piece of writing that tells a story. It has characters, settings, and a plot.
What is a narrative?
200
This is when a character is talking.
What is dialogue?
200
A picture that includes labels of certain parts.
What is a diagram?
200
A word that means the opposite.
What is an antonym?
200
"The stars were candles guiding the weary travelers" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
200
This type of writing convinces the reader to do something or to agree with something.
What is persuasive or opinion writing?
300
This is the list of people in a play.
What is the cast of characters?
300
A passage that is explained in order of when the events happened uses this text structure.
What is chronological order?
300
This reference lists synonyms for words.
What is a thesaurus?
300
"This cat weighs a ton" is an example of this.
What is a hyperbole?
300
This type of writing provides facts and explains something.
What is informational or nonfiction writing?
400
This is another name for the problem in a story.
What is the conflict?
400
The name of the genre when a person writes his/her life story.
What is a autobiography?
400
When this is added to the beginning of a root word, it makes a new word and changes the meaning of the word.
What is a prefix?
400
"Storm clouds threatened to flood the wheat fields in the Midwestern region" is an example of this.
What is personification?
400
There should be a comma after this word in the following sentence: "Melody and I ate lunch but we did not have dessert."
What is "lunch"?
500
This is the message or lesson that the story teaches.
What is theme?
500
The paragraph that usually reemphasizes and summarizes the main idea in an informational passage.
What is the conclusion?
500
Words that sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings. For example, to, two, and too.
What are homophones?
500
"The pitter-patter of the rain on the roof lulled us to sleep" is an example of this.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
Dependent clause + comma + independent clause = this type of sentence.
What is a complex sentence?