Text Structure
This type of text structure includes lots of dates or steps/instructions. It will tell events in the order that they happened.
What is sequence/chronological order?
How the lines of poems are organized.
What is stanzas?
The part of the story where the action changes, before a solution to the problem is found.
What is the climax?
This is what someone thinks, feels, believes. It cannot be proven correct/incorrect.
What is an opinion?
When a character in the story tells the story from his/her point of view.
What is 1st person POV?
This type of text structure tells how two things are alike and how they are different. It may include a Venn Diagram or Double Bubble organizer.
What is compare & contrast?
The person talking in a poem, or who is expressing feelings in a poem.
Who is the speaker/narrator?
The author's message or lesson he/she wants you to learn from reading a fiction story.
What is the theme?
The retelling of the main events of the story in sequence. It is usually brief.
What is a summary?
When the narrator is someone outside of the story and knows how ALL characters feel and what they are thinking.
What is 3rd Person Omniscient POV?
This type of text structure describes an issue and tells how it is resolved or ways it can be resolved.
What is problem & solution?
Figurative language that compares two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
The part of the story where the problem is solved.
What is resolution?
This means "to figure it out" using clues from the story or text.
What is inference?
When the narrator is telling YOU directions or giving the reader instructions in the text.
What is 2nd Person POV?
Figurative language that gives a non-human object characteristics to make it seem like a human.
What is personification?
The part of the story that builds interest/suspense and it's usually where the problem or conflict develops.
What is the rising action?
A sentence that tells what the passage is mostly about.
What is main idea?
The person telling the story.
What is a narrator?
Figurative language that shows extreme exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
The feeling the author wants the reader to have during a story.
What is the mood?
The reason why an author writes a story, article, or text.
What is author's purpose?
When the narrator is outside of the story and only knows the thoughts & feelings of one of the main characters in the story.
What is 3rd Person Limited POV?