Narrative Text
Informational Text
Poetry & Figurative Language
Point of View
Miscellaneous
100

The lesson or message that can be inferred from a story

What is theme?

100

Bold print, headings, title, and footnotes are examples of these.

What are text features?

100

A group of lines in a poem

What is stanza?

100

This narrator is also a character in the story.

What is first person P.O.V.?

100

This genre utilizes scenes, stage directions, and character tags.

What is a drama?

200

The series of events in a story

What is Plot?

200

The text under a photo that gives an explanation about it

What is a caption?

200

A poem that reads like a story

What is narrative poetry?

200

Sasha and Jonah were thrown into the rushing water. As they were carried along, bobbing up and down like a corks, Sasha wondered if her baby would remember her if she died. POV?

What is Third Person Limited?

200

This organizational pattern explains how and why events occurred.

What is cause and effect?

300

The main conflict starts this part of the plot

What is rising action?

300

An author writes an informational text to explain or describe something.  This is called what?

What is author's purpose?

300

Silly Sally smiled sadly is an example of

What is alliteration

300

The narrator draws the reader in by speaking directly to them. 

What is second person POV?

300

An author uses this type of figurative language to exaggerate in order to emphasize a point.

What is hyperbole?

400

This literary element affects both the plot and the theme as well as giving you an important idea of time and place

What is setting?

400

This is what the passage or paragraph is mostly about

What is main or central idea?

400

The one who is talking in the poem

What is the speaker?

400

I was late for school, so I was in a hurry and forgot my planner. I was so worried that I was going to be in trouble for being unprepared. POV?

What is first person POV?

400

The part of the story where the main character has to make a decision or the turning point of the story

What is the climax?

500

This  story is true.  The characters, setting, and events are all real.  What genre is this?

What is narrative nonfiction?

500

How an author organizes their ideas 

What is organizational pattern or text structure?

500

The candy in the cupboard called to me. This is an example of what?

What is personification

500

Narrator knows everything in the story and reveals the thoughts of two or more characters.

What is third person omniscient POV?

500

Language that appeals to your senses or that paints a picture in your head

What is sensory language?