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Literary Texts
Informational Texts
Vocabulary
Figurative Language & Poetry
Writing & Author's Purpose
100
The location and time in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
100
A list of words and definitions found in the back of a text.
What is the glossary?
100
A word that means almost the same thing.
What is a synonym?
100
"The tiny white flowers dotted the morning mountainside like patches of snow" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
100
A piece of writing that tells a story. It has characters, settings, and a plot.
What is a narrative/fictional story?
200
This is when a character is talking; written using quotation marks
What is dialogue?
200
A short title located at the top of a paragraph.
What is a heading or subtitle?
200
A word that means the opposite.
What is an antonym?
200
"The stars were candles guiding the weary travelers" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
200
An article convincing you to buy purely organic groceries is an example of which author's purpose?
What is to persuade?
300
This is the peak moment in a story; the rising action leads up to it, the falling action comes after it
What is the climax?
300
A passage that is explained in order of when the events happened uses this text structure.
What is chronological/time order/sequence?
300
This reference lists synonyms for words.
What is a thesaurus?
300
"This cat weights a ton" is an example of this.
What is a hyperbole?
300
A newspaper article detailing factual details of a flower is which type of author's purpose?
What is to inform?
400
The angle in which the story is written.
What is the point of view?
400
This is a text structure in which similarities and differences are discussed.
What is a compare and contrast?
400
When this is added to the beginning of a root word, it makes a new word and changes the meaning of the word.
What is a prefix?
400
"Storm clouds threatened to flood the wheat fields in the Midwestern region" is an example of this.
What is personification?
400
A story about ghosts and goblins coming to Center School is which author's purpose?
What is to entertain?
500
This is the deeper meaning or the insight the story teaches about life; the main message of the story
What is theme?
500
The paragraph that usually reemphasizes and summarizes the main idea in an informational passage.
What is the last paragraph or conclusion?
500
This is a person's background knowledge on a topic, text, or story.
What is schema?
500
This is how you refer to groups of lines in a play or a poem.
What are stanzas?
500
This sentence alerts your reader to the overall theme of your writing. It clearly states your stance on a topic.
What is a thesis statement?