The events, people, and places might be real, but the story is fiction
What is realistic fiction?
100
Signal words including first, second, third, then, next, before, after, following
What is sequence?
100
Gives a summary about the topic of the chapter.
What is an introduction?
100
People who write the plays
What is a playwright?
100
Form of poetry that can be funny, witty, or not make any sense
What is humorous poetry?
200
Uses scientific concepts as a primary element of plot, theme, and setting. Many of these stories are set in the future with new innovations in science and technology.
What is science fiction?
200
Signal words include: Since, because if, due to, as a result of
What is cause and effect?
200
Major Topic of the paragraphs that follow; definitions included, facts presented
What are headings?
200
Tells an actor how to move, speak, and act
What are stage directions?
200
The repetition of similar sounds.
What is alliteration?
300
Uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in fictional words where magic is common.
What is fantasy?
300
Uses signal words: similar, same, alike, both, as well as, unlike
What is compare and contrast?
300
Includes key points of all sections.
What is a summary?
300
The series of events that make up the story.
What is the plot?
300
Compares two unlike things using like or as
What is a simile?
400
These stories usually take place in the past during an important event in history. Some settings and historical characters might be real, but the story line and main characters are made up.
What is historical fiction?
400
Uses signal words: problem, issue, so, since, as a result, solution, idea
What is problem and solution?
400
Nonfiction reading material intended to inform or explain something to a reading audience.
What is expository text?
400
Gives the audience information about what is happening in the play.
What is the narrator?
400
When words sound like the objects they name or the sounds those objects make.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
Characters, setting (plot), events, problem, resolution, does not provide information, it is usually read for entertainment
What is a characteristic of fiction? Name one.
500
Uses signal words: such as, for instance, in addition, also, specifically