A part of the plot of a story, also known as the conflict.
What is the problem?
100
The central message the author wants to deliver to readers.
What is the theme?
100
The curved marks used in writing shown here: ( )
What are parentheses?
100
A text that is often short and includes rhyming words.
What is a poem?
200
When the author tells their own life story or experience.
What is an autobiography?
200
Often confused with a fact, this is how someone feels about something.
What is an opinion?
200
The perspective from which a story is written. For example, the word "I" is used for the first person perspective.
What is point of view?
200
A picture or drawing to add to or help with the understanding of a text.
What is an illustration (or diagram)?
200
A group of lines that make up a paragraph in a work of poetry.
What is a stanza?
300
Another word for a play or theatrical work.
What is a drama?
300
What a story is primarily about.
What is the main idea?
300
To give the reader information in a text before the associated event actually happens.
What is foreshadowing?
300
Located in the front cover of a print material listing units, chapters, stories, or sections in the order in which they appear.
What is the Table of Contents?
300
Also known as mood, this is the way a story makes readers feel. Recipes do not have this, as they only give directions for preparing a food item.
What is tone?
400
A retelling of the most important parts of what was read.
What is a summary?
400
Often confused with compare, this means to show how things are different from one another.
What is contrast?
400
The relationship between what makes something happen and the result (or what happens because of something).
What is cause and effect?
400
A small dictionary in the back of a book.
What is a Glossary?
400
The edible materials used in cooking that are typically listed at the beginning of a recipe.
What are ingredients?
500
Often confused with fairy tales, these are fictional stories based on legends.
What are folk tales?
500
The reason why an author wrote a passage, usually to persuade, inform, and/or entertain readers.
What is the author's purpose?
500
A special kind of educated guess or opinion based on evidence from a text and your prior knowledge.
What is an inference?
500
It introduces the main idea of the section of text that follows.
What is a subheading?
500
These help readers find meaning using the words or sentences surrounding a phrase. It may be more difficult finding meaning in poetry and recipes with these than in regular stories.