Literary Texts
The location and time in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
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?
This is when a character is talking.
What is dialogue?
A picture that includes labels of certain parts.
What is a diagram?
A word that means the opposite.
What is an antonym?
"The stars were candles guiding the weary travelers" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
This type of writing convinces the reader to do something or to agree with something.
What is persuasive writing?
This is the list of people in a play.
What is the cast of characters?
A passage that is explained in order of when the events happened uses this text structure.
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 climax or turning point?
This is at the end of an article and it lists the sources the author used to write the passage.
What is a bibliography?
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?
"Storm clouds threatened to flood the wheat fields in the Midwestern region" is an example of this.
What is personification?
"We went outside and we ate lunch" is an example of this type of sentence.
What is a compound 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?
The lady was awfully nice.
What is an oxymoron?
"Because she broke her arm" is an example of this.
What is a fragment or an incomplete sentence?