Elements of Literary Texts
A list of words and definitions.
What is the glossary?
A word that means almost the same thing.
What is a synonym?
"The tiny white flowers dotted the morning mountainside like patches of snow" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
A piece of writing that tells a story. It has characters, settings, and a plot.
What is a narrative?
A picture that includes labels of certain parts.
What is a diagram?
A word that means the opposite.
What is an antonym?
A comparison not using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
This type of writing convinces the reader to do something or to agree with something.
What is persuasive writing?
People in a play or story.
who are the characters?
A passage that is explained in order of when the events happened uses this text structure. Also known as order of events.
What is chronological order?
This reference lists synonyms for words.
What is a thesaurus?
"This cat weights a ton" is an example of this.
What is a hyperbole?
This type of writing provides facts and explains something.
What is informational or nonfiction writing?
This is the part of the story when the suspense peaks and the problem is solved.
What is the turning point or climax ?
An author's purpose to tell you how things are the same and how things are different.
what is compare and contrast?
When this is added to the beginning of a root word, it makes a new word and chenges the meaning of the word.
What is a prefix?
"Storm clouds threatened to flood the wheat fields in the Midwestern region" is an example of this.
What is personification?
"After we went outside, we ate lunch" is an example of this type of sentence.
What is a complex sentence?
This is the deeper meaning or the insight the story teaches about life.
What is theme?
The paragraph that usually reemphasizes and summarizes the main idea in an informational passage.
What is the last paragraph or conclusion
Words that sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings.
What are homophones?
"Rain drummed a steady tempo on the roof" is an example of this.
What is imagery?
"Because she broke her arm" is an example of this.
What is an incomplete sentence?