Fiction
Context Clues: The class decided to exhibit the science project during Parents’ Night.
Bedbugs are one of the worst household pests. This is an example of fact or opinion.
What is opinion?
These are words that imitate the sound they represent.
What is an onomatopoeia?
This is the moral of the story.
What is theme?
What does the bee do? Bring home honey. And what does Father do? Bring home money. And what does Mother do? Lay out the money. And what does baby do? Eat up the honey.
What is poetry?
Authors use dialogue to do what...?
Show character's emotion and actions.
Ligon Middle School is located in Raleigh, North Carolina. This is an example of fact or opinion.
What is fact?
The crook was as sly as a fox.
What is simile?
This is considered the turning point of the story/the most exciting part of the story.
What is the climax?
This genre normal has a crime to solve.
What is a mystery?
This is the problem in plot development.
What is conflict?
These help you to read a piece of informational text. They can be captions, sidebars, bold words, etc.
What are text features?
My computer screamed before it died a brutal death.
What is personification?
This is a paragraph in a poem.
What is a stanza?
A story the deals with alien cloning.
What is science fiction?
This tells you the setting and the main characters that are introduced at the beginning of the story.
What is the exposition?
These words have opposite meanings.
What are antonyms?
Choose the best answer. Which of the following is an inanimate object that can be personified? A. a star B. the dog C. Suzy D. Basketball team
What is A?
What a whole story or paragraph is MOSTLY about.
Main Idea
A story about a girl and her pet unicorn.
What is fantasy?
This is the final part of the novel- the ending of the story.
What is the resolution?
The way in which an author presents the information in his/her story or article.
Some of the most common text structures are: chronological order, problem and solution, cause and effect, compare and contrast
My niece Laurel is a ray sunshine.
What is a metaphor?
The author’s REASON for writing the text
-persuade -entertain -teach -explain
-inform -express feelings
The author's purpose!
This is a story about the Holocaust but it has made-up characters that were not real.
What is historical fiction?