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Organizational Patterns
Author's Purpose
Prefixes, Suffixes, & Root Words
Poetry
Figurative Language
100
a common organizational pattern presenting events in the order in which they occur
What is Chronological Order or Sequence Order
100
the purpose an author uses when wanting to teach or inform readers about a topic
What is to inform?
100
a special group of letters added to the beginning of a root word
What is prefix?
100
Paragraph of a poem
What is Stanza?
100
Giving human characteristics to something that is not human
What is personification?
200
an organizational pattern in which one events leads to another
What is Cause and Effect
200
the purpose for an author writing to persuade readers to think a particular way about a topic
What is to peruade?
200
a special group of letters that are added to the end of a root word
What is suffix?
200
Words that sound like what they mean
What is onomatopoeia?
200
compares two things using the words "like" or "as"
What is simile?
300
an organizational pattern in which the author presents a difficulty or conflict and then shows ways the difficulty is removed or reduced
What is Conflict/Solution
300
a author's purpose in which the reader reads for enjoyment
What is to entertain?
300
a word that can have its meaning changed by adding a prefix or suffix to it
What is a root word?
300
Repetition of the same consonant letter at the beginning of nearby words in a single line of poetry
What is alliteration?
300
Compares two things by saying one thing is the other. Does NOT use "like" or "as"
What is metaphor?
400
an organizational pattern that writers use to show how two or more things are alike or different
What is Compare/Contrast?
400
when an author's purpose is to tell his/her deepest feelings, especially when writing in a journal or a poem
What is to express?
400
a prefix that means "not"
What is "dis-" or "un-"
400
A type of rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry
What is internal rhyme?
400
an exaggeration used to make a point or create a picture
What is hyperbole?
500
an organizational pattern in which the author takes a broad topic and then breaks the topic into different categories or types
What is Classification Scheme or Descriptive?
500
another word for persuade
What is convince or influence?
500
the meaning of the suffix "-ous" in mysterious
What is full of?
500
Verses of a poem that do not rhyme
What is free verse?
500
sensory details that appeal to the five senses and help reader imagine what they are reading
What is imagery?