Genre
Stories that have been passed down throughout the centuries.
What are folktales, or traditional literature?
The name of a book
What is the title?
A piece written that tells the similarities and differences between two things
What is compare/contrast?
"You are as smart as an owl" is an example.
What is a simile?
The, a, an
What is an article?
A story written with items that have not been invented yet.
What is science fiction?
The "paragraph" in a poem
What is a stanza?
A piece written in time order
What is chronological order or sequence?
Four reasons authors write.
What is to persuade, inform, explain, and entertain?
am, run, jump, climb
What is a verb?
A story written with talking animals.
What is fantasy?
The words between two paragraphs that give a clue about what the next paragraph is about.
What is a subheading?
A piece written that tells about something that happened and why.
What is cause and effect?
The time and place of a story.
What is the setting?
brown, ten, happy
What are adjectives?
A book written with factual information.
What is non-fiction?
The italicized writing in a drama that tells the actors how to act.
What are stage directions?
A piece written that tells about some difficulty that happened and how it was solved.
What is problem and solution?
The message or lesson the author wants you to learn.
What is theme?
box, cat, seat
What are nouns?
A book written by a person, about that person.
What is an autobiography?
The list of words at the end of the book, with their definitions.
What is a glossary?
A piece written that tells about something, then gives more information about that specific thing.
What is description, or main idea and details?
Figurative language that gives human qualities to a non-human object.
What is personification?
Happily, quickly, nervously
What are adverbs?