Literary Elements
This literary element refers to the time and place in which a story takes place.
What is setting?
This reading strategy involves using context clues and prior knowledge to make educated guesses about what will happen next.
What is prediction?
These are clues in surrounding sentences that help you figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
What are context clues?
This text structure compares and contrasts two or more topics.
What is compare/contrast?
The three main purposes for writing are to inform, entertain, and this.
What is to persuade?
This is a comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
This is information that is suggested but not directly stated in the text.
What is inference?
These word parts added to the beginning of a word change its meaning, such as "un-" or "re-".
What are prefixes?
This text structure presents events in the order they occurred.
What is chronological/sequential order?
This is the attitude or feeling that the author has toward the subject.
What is tone?
This literary element is the problem or conflict that drives the plot of a story.
What is conflict?
This is the sequence of events that make up a story, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
What is plot?
This vocabulary strategy involves replacing an unknown word with another word to see if it makes sense.
What is substitution?
This type of text organization presents a problem and then explains its solution.
What is problem-solution?
This is when an author tries to convince readers to agree with their opinion or take a specific action.
What is persuasion?
This is when the author gives hints about what might happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
This reading skill involves determining the most important ideas or information in a text. Answer: What is identifying main ideas?
What is identifying main ideas?
These are pairs of words with opposite meanings.
What are antonyms?
This text structure explains the relationship between a cause and its effect.
What is cause and effect?
This term describes the emotional atmosphere of a literary work.
What is mood?
This literary device gives human characteristics to non-human things.
What is personification?
This complex reading skill involves evaluating how the author's background, beliefs, and purpose influence the text.
What is analyzing author's bias?
This is a word that sounds the same as another word but has a different meaning and spelling. Answer:
What is a homophone?
This text structure develops a topic by breaking it down into subtopics or categories.
What is classification/categorization?
This literary technique uses ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices.
What is satire?