A group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose.
What is a stanza?
100
The action/Line of the story.
What is plot?
100
Can be proven with data, observations, and reliable sources,
What is a factual claim?
100
title, subheading, insert, and captions
What are text features?
100
The lake is a mirror reflecting the bright sunlight in the early morning.
What is a metaphor?
200
Has no rhyme scheme or stanzas
What is free verse or non traditional?
200
The most exciting or "turning point" moment in a story.
What is climax?
200
Someone's beliefs about a matter.
What is an opinion?
200
Events are arranged in the order in which they happen. This type of organizational pattern is used in short stories, biographies, and autobiographies. Related to the Greek word for time.
What is chronological order or sequence organizational pattern?
200
The wind whispered through the the young leaves of the pecan tree.
What is personification?
300
Tells a story of a mythic or national hero and is usually long, serious in tone and doesn't rhyme.
What is an Epic Poem?
300
person vs. person, person vs. self, person vs. society, person vs. nature are types of ________. (Problems in a story)
What is conflict?
300
You need this in order to prove an inference or anything from what you read.
What is text evidence?
300
This pattern shows causal relationships between events, ideas, and trends. Some transition words used in this pattern are "because, since, as a result of." Type of Text Structure.
What is cause and effect?
300
His head was small and flat at the top, with huge ears, and a long beakish nose, so that it looked like a weathervane perched upon his spindly neck to tell which way the wind blew.
What is a simile?
400
Because I do not hope to turn again;
Because I do not hope;
Because I do not hope to turn;
What is repetition or alliteration?
400
Reveals the outcome of the conflict. (Part of Plot)
What is the resolution?
400
The part of a persuasive essay in which you make your central claim.
What is a thesis?
400
Often includes important details such as the main characters, the setting and main events in a literary piece and main ideas and supporting details in an expository/ nonfiction piece of writing.
What is a summary?
400
In 1970, a politician complained the news media were "nattering nabobs of negativism".
What is alliteration?
500
The rhythm produced by a poem's words,lines, and stanzas.
What is meter?
500
The overall message of a story that reveals something about the human experience.
What is theme?
500
Conclusions, generalizations, and predictions are included in what we call ______.
What are inferences?
500
Sometimes a text only hints at the main idea instead of telling it outright. In that case, it's the reader's job to make an...