Text Structures
This is a structure that uses words like, features, includes, examples of...
What is description.
When you see a number next to a line in poetry that means...
It is the number of the line.
This uses like or as to compare two unlike things.
What is simile?
The word that separates two independent clauses with a comma is called...
Coordinating conjunction or FANBOYS.
This text structure uses words like first, second, finally, before, after, and meanwhile.
What is sequence?
Money can't buy happiness is an example of...
What is theme?
What is one question you could ask yourself when trying to understand poetry?
What is the subject?
What is the situation?
What is the author's attitude?
Todd is my rock - is an example of...
This separates appositive phrases.
What is a comma?
This text structure uses a Venn Diagram as its graphic organizer.
What is compare and contrast.
A theme is not a...
What is topic.
Pies, pastries, puddings, and cakes is an example of...
He is a couch potato - is an example of...
What is an idiom?
Appositive phrases are also known as...
What are bonus facts in a sentence.
This text structure talks about an event and what caused it to occur.
What is cause and effect.
What is universal truth? or Moral of the story.
Author's use these to make poem sound better when read out loud.
What is literary devices?
The flowers danced in the wind - is an example of...
An ellipsis looks like this:
This text structure uses words like because, since, issue, resolution, resolved, etc.
Themes are described as...
Lesson the author is trying to teach the reader.
Author's of poetry and rappers use this in their work.
What is rhyme?
What is a hyperbole?
You can use this instead of parenthesis when giving additional information.
What is a dash?