TYPES OF TEXTS
A category or type of literature.
What is genre?
Giving human-like qualities to things that are not human.
What is personification?
Using information found in text by summarizing, paraphrasing, giving specific detail, or using direct quotations.
What is textual evidence?
The sequence of events in the story (what happens)
What is plot?
Text that is presented in a step-by-step pattern.
What is sequential?
A fictional story that deals with gods and usually explains a natural phenomena.
What is a myth?
Words of phrases that help the reader develop a picture in their mind.
What is imagery?
A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
What is an inference?
Conversation between characters
What is dialogue?
A pattern of text in which the situated presented needs a solution.
What is problem/solution?
Writing about a person's life written by someone else
What is a biography?
Comparing two unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
The central message, concern or purpose.
What is theme?
The person telling the story.
What is narrator?
A pattern of text in which ideas are presented in the order they occurred.
What is chronological?
Writing about REAL people, events, places, etc.
What is nonfiction?
What is hyperbole?
A dictionary definition.
What is denotation?
Using words in away that is different than the actual meaning.
What is figurative language?
What is cause & effect?
A story that is passed down through generations.
What is a folktale?
Phrases that cannot be taken literally.
What is an idiom?
The writer’s attitude toward the readers and toward the subject, conveyed by the language and rhythm of the speaker
What is tone?
The thoughts and feelings associated with a word, rather than its dictionary definition (context clues)
What is connotation?
What is spatial (descriptive)?