Literary Texts
Informational Texts
Vocabulary
Figurative Language & Poetry
Writing
100
The location and time in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
100
A list of words and definitions at the back of the book.
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 what type of figurative language?

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 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

The root word phone means to sound. What does the word megaphone mean.

What is a device to make sounds

300

"This cat weights 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 the part of the story when the suspense peaks.

What is the plot?

400

Informational text features help the reader to 

a) Know what to read first

b) Identify the focus of the article

c) Visualize what the author is talking about

d) all of the above


What is C

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

"The waves beside them danced".

What is personification?

400

"After we went outside, we ate lunch." is an example of this type of sentence?

What is a complex sentence?

500

This is the moral or the life lesson the story teaches about life.

What is theme?

500

The paragraph that usually reemphasizes and summarizes the main idea in an informational passage.

What is the last paragraph or conclusion

500

Words that sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings.

What are homophones?

500

The act of giving human traits, qualities, or actions to non-living things

example: Lightening dances across the sky.

What is personification?

500

Because she broke her arm is an example of?

What is an "incomplete sentence?"