Fiction
This character in the story usually creates the conflict.
What is the antagonist?
In a drama, the authors uses THIS to show the setting.
What are scenes?
Photographs, captions, facts, headings, diagrams, charts, etc.
What are text features?
An example is: OUCH! That hurt!
What is onomatopoeia?
The reason why an author writes an informational text.
What is author's purpose?
This is the turning point in a story, where everything changes.
What is the climax?
The reader learns the actions of a character and how they should say their lines by reading THESE.
What are stage directions?
A text feature that shows how something works and usually has labels.
What is a diagram?
An example is: Staying at camp was like being trapped in a block of ice.
What is a simile?
THIS purpose is used when the author is trying to change a person's thoughts or actions.
What is persuade?
Drawing this can help a reader understand the main events in a story.
What is a plot diagram?
Italicized words inside [brackets] or (parentheses) next to a character's line.
What do stage directions look like?
The reason or reasons an author will write an informational text.
What is the author's purpose?
An example is: Help! My backpack is trying to eat my homework.
What is personification?
The organizational pattern that tells you WHAT happens and WHY it happens.
What is cause and effect?
An author usually shares his message with the reader when he shows how the main character learns a lesson after resolving a problem.
What is a theme?
The way lines in a poem are organized (almost like paragraphs).
What are stanzas?
Studying the _____ _____ of an informational text can help the reader form a _______.
What is text features and prediction/inference?
A type of literary device that poets use to help a reader visualize what they are talking about.
What is figurative language?
THIS organizational pattern will give you events in order and provide step-by-step instructions.
What is chronological order?
This narrator knows the thoughts, feelings, and actions of ALL the characters in a story.
What is 3rd person omniscient?
Why might the poet repeat or italicize lines in a poem?
...to emphasize the importance of the line.
Looking for the subject of an informational text and the most important thing about it tell the ____.
What is the main idea?
Give an example of a metaphor.
What is _____? (Answers will vary.)
What author's use when they write to describe to help readers visualize what they are explaining.
What are adjectives or details?