Nonfiction
Nonfiction is writing based on...
What is factual information?
Fiction is writing based on...
What is imagination?
Drama is a story told in a...
What is a play?
Mythology is the included in the genre of...
What is fiction?
Poets want you to have an emotional reaction to their poetry.
What is the purpose of poetry?
Cause and effect, problem and solution, main idea and details, compare and contrast
What are types of nonfiction text structure?
Fictional stories have a structure.
What is plot?
Characters speaking to each other in a play
What is dialogue?
Explain things people didn't understand and help us see what confused cultures in the past
What is t he purpose of myths?
Personification, similes, metaphors, idioms
What are examples of figurative language?
Title, headings, Table of Contents, subtitles
What are types of text features?
Characters, setting and hint at the conflict
What is the exposition?
Words in italics that tell actors what to do and how to say their lines
What are stage directions?
Myth that explains the seasons of the year
What is Demeter and Persephone?
Alliteration, rhyme, onomatopoeia
What are examples of sound devices?
Maps, diagrams, timelines, tables, charts
What are examples of graphic features?
First person, third person omniscient, third person limited
What are points of view?
The larger section of a play
What is an act?
Myth that explains why the world has disease, old age, despair and hope
What is Pandora's Box?
A,B,B,C,C
What is rhyme scheme?
An alphabetical list of topics and their pages in a nonfiction text.
What is an index?
The lesson a story teaches us
What is theme?
The writer of a play
What is a playwright?
Myth that explains the creation of spiders
Arachne and Athena or Arachne the Spinner
Two ways that poets make us feel emotions
What are figurative language and sound devices?