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Figurative Language
Types of Conflict
Non-Fiction Organizational Patterns
Vocabulary
Non-Fiction Text Features
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My dog runs around the house like a tornado.
What is a simile.
100
A man and a woman are arguing in a parking lot after the man claims she stole his parking spot.
What is individual vs. individual OR person vs. person
100
A text that is told in the order and time in which it happened. Sometimes, you may see a timeline in these texts.
What is chronological order.
100
The key idea of a text.
What is the main idea
100
A description of a picture/photograph.
What is a caption
200
When we visited my grandma, we went whale watching at Wispy Windy Willows Beach.
What is alliteration
200
Despite reciting her lines for three days straight, Maria becomes incredibly nervous on the night of her play and contemplates not going onstage.
What is individual vs. self OR person vs. self
200
A text that is told in the order it happens, but does not necessarily correspond with a certain time period. One example: instruction manual
What is sequential or sequence
200
What you look at in the text in order to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
What are context clues
200
A type of feature used to break up the sections of a text.
What are subheadings
300
It took me a million years to get to work in all of the traffic this morning!
What is hyperbole
300
After a tornado destroys his house, James and his family must move to another state to temporarily live with his grandmother.
What is individual vs. nature OR person vs. nature
300
A text that discusses the similarities and differences of something.
What is compare and contrast
300
What you should do for every answer you choose on a test.
What is justify and/or go back to the text
300
Information from the text put into a visual to make it easier for the reader to see.
What is a graph or chart
400
I am a wizard when it comes to taking tests- I breeze through it all of the questions!
What is metaphor
400
Despite restarting her computer four times, Ms. Adams can't get her computer to work and is unable to show her PowerPoint to the class.
What is individual vs. technology OR person vs. technology
400
A text that discusses something and why it may have happened.
What is cause and effect
400
Evidence of the main idea.
What is supporting details
400
Definitions of key vocabulary in a text.
What is a glossary
500
The building frowned at me as I walked in.
What is personification
500
Mel and Issac protest against their Senator for voting against a human rights bill.
What is individual vs. society OR person vs. society
500
A text that discusses an issues and offers one or more answers to them.
What is problem and solution
500
Describe the main points of the text.
What is summarizing
500
An alphabetical list of topics in a text and what pages they can be located on.
What is an index