Text Features
Descriptive Language
Figurative Language
What's the Word
Name that skill
100
This type of text feature would show a picture and label the different parts of the picture. (See picture)
What is a diagram
100
This type of descriptive language creates mental images in the readers mind.
What is Imagery
100
This is a figure of speech that uses an exaggerated or extravagant statement to create a strong emotional response
What is Hyperbole
100
This word means disorder or lack of authority or rules.
What is Anarchy
100
Name the FCAT skill you would use to answer the question below: "Which line from the poem "Women Woman with Flower" clearly reveals its theme?
What is Theme
200
This type of text feature is drawn, such as a cartoon. (See picture)
What is an Illustration
200
This type of descriptive language conveys how the author feels toward a subject, it may be positive, negative, or neutral.
What is Tone
200
This is a figurative language device that gives nonhuman animals or objects human qualities or abilities.
What is Personification
200
This word means to put down by force or to keep down.
What is Suppress
200
Name the FCAT skill you would use to answer the question below: What is the author's reason for writing the article?
What is Author's Purpose
300
This type of text feature is an alphabetical list of names, subjects, etc., with references and page numbers to the places where they occurred in the book, typically found at the end of a book
What is an Index
300
This is the feeling or atmosphere the author tries to convey through the setting of the story
What is Mood
300
These are figurative language devices that use make comparisons between two words. One device uses like or as, while the other does not use like or as. Name both devices.
What is Simile and Metaphor
300
This word means wickedness, or evil.
What is Depravity
300
Name the FCAT skill you would use to answer the question below: What does the word erratic mean as used in the sentence above?
What is Context Clues
400
This type of text feature is an alphabetical list of terms or words found in or relating to a specific subject, text, or dialect, with explanations; a brief dictionary
What is a Glossary
400
This is the use of the same sound at the beginning of each word.
What is Alliteration
400
This is a figurative language device that is a play on words that sound the same, or almost the same, but have different meanings
What is a Pun
400
This word means someone who favors firm discipline or demanding and expected total obedience.
What is Authoritarian
400
Name the FCAT skill you would use to answer the question below: Based on the essay "Walking," which action will the narrator most likely take in the future?
What is Predictions
500
This type of text feature is a piece of information printed at the bottom of a page, it is represented in the passage with a number listed next to the term it is referring to.
What is a Footnote
500
This is an example of what descriptive language device A husband and wife go to a silent auction. The husband bids on a painting his wife would love. He finds out he was outbid, so he puts in another. After several times of being outbid he stops bidding. Afterwards, he finds out his wife was the other bidder.
What is Irony
500
This is when the author will use a concrete object, such as the flag, to represent an idea, such as freedom.
What is Symbolism
500
This word means wholesome or promoting good health or beneficial.
What is Salutary
500
Name the FCAT skill you would use to answer the question below: From reading the article, the reader can infer that the "world's roof" will what?
What is Inferences