Informational Text
The main idea of a text is often referred to as this, summarizing what the author wants you to understand.
What is the central idea?
This is the term for the time and place in which a story unfolds.
What is setting?
These punctuation marks are used to indicate spoken dialogue within a text.
What are quotation marks?
In a story, this structural element represents the struggle or problem that the characters face.
What is conflict?
This type of text structure presents a problem and then discusses a solution.
What is problem and solution?
The perspective from which a story is told, such as first-person or third-person.
What is point of view?
This is the term for the choice and use of words in writing.
What is diction?
This term refers to the message, moral, or lesson of a text, which can be seen through symbols or repeated ideas.
What is theme?
This term describes the emotional or situational setting surrounding text events.
What is context?
This technique in storytelling uses hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in the plot.
What is foreshadowing?
This term refers to a group of letters added at the beginning of a word to alter its meaning.
What is a prefix?
This reading strategy involves using clues in the text to figure out meanings of unfamiliar words.
What is context clue?
This is a form of visual text structure that shows a sequence of events or steps in a process.
What is a timeline?
This point in a story signifies the turning point or most intense moment.
What is the climax?
This is the term for a group of words that contains a subject and a verb, and forms a complete thought.
What is a sentence?
This term means the main events that develop the story, often organized chronologically.
What is plot?
This term describes what the author intends to achieve with their audience; to inform, persuade, entertain, or explain.
What is author's purpose?
This is the emotional feeling or atmosphere that a work of literature produces in a reader.
What is mood?
This figure of speech combines two contradictory terms, like 'jumbo shrimp.'
What is oxymoron?
These tools are used in text to help illustrate or explain ideas, like diagrams or graphs.
What are text features?