Figurative Language
Story Elements
Reading Strategies
Types of Text
Nonfiction Features
100
A comparison using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
100
Who the story is about.
What is the main character?
100
Text to self, text to text, text to world are examples of...
What are connections?
100
The story of a person's life.
What is a biography?
100
Words that are darker than the other words in the text.
What is bold words?
200
Comparing two things by saying one thing is the other.
What is a metaphor?
200
The problem in a story.
What is the conflict?
200
To retell the main events of the story or the key points in a text.
What is to summarize?
200
The story of a real person's life written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
200
The place in the book that tells you what words mean.
What is the glossary?
300
Giving human features to something that is not alive.
What is personification?
300
Point of View that uses the words I.
What is first person?
300
To draw a conclusion from the text.
What is an inference?
300
A story or piece of text that involves characters and events that are not real.
What is a fictional story?
300
The place in the book that tells you where to find information, key words, or main ideas.
What is the table of contents or index?
400
The way an author uses words to create emotion or feeling.
What is imagery?
400
Point of view that knows the thoughts and feeling of every character.
What is third person omniscient?
400
To use the events from the story to guess what will happen next.
What is to predict?
400
Text that teaches you something.
What is informational?
400
The title at the start of a paragraph or section.
What is the heading?
500
Words that appeal to your sense of taste, touch, sight, or sound.
What is sensory language?
500
The 5 parts of a plot diagram.
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
500
The 4 reasons a person might write something.
What is to inform, persuade, entertain, or describe?
500
A story using made up characters but events that could actually happen.
What is realistic fiction?
500
The description written underneath a photograph.
What is a caption?