Figurative Language
Types of Text
Author's Purpose
Text Features
Poems
100

huge exaggeration

What is hyperbole?

100

Fiction story that couldn't happen in real life.  Animals might speak in this type of story.

What is fantasy?

100

why we write

What is author's purpose?

100

helps a reader visualize 

What is a photo?

100

stanza

What is a poem paragraph?

200

gurgle, bang, clank

What is onomatopoeia?

200

The factual story of a person's life

What is biography?
200

text that gives facts and information

What is to inform?

200

helps a reader find a location in the world

What is a map?

200

poem with 5 lines that is funny

What is limerick?

300

comparing two things using like or as

What is a simile?

300

 characters, setting, & plot

What are the features of fiction text?

300

text that engages a reader, often makes them laugh

What is to entertain?

300

explains a photograph

What is a caption?

300

a poem with any number of lines and no rhyming

What is free verse?

400
my alarm clock screamed

What is personification? 

400

facts, text features, central idea

What are the features of informational text?

400

text that convinces a reader to do something, or like something

What is to persuade?

400

gives a picture of data

What is a graph?

400
a poem with 3 lines and a fixed syllable pattern

What is haiku?

500

Her eyes were the blue blue sky

What is metaphor?

500

lines, stanzas, rhyme schemes

What are the features of poetry?

500

text that gives the steps on how to do something

What is to explain?

500

summarizes the upcoming text

What is a heading?

500

poem with 4 lines and a fixed rhyme scheme

What is quatrain?