Fiction/Poetry/Text Features

Figurative Language

100

The boy ran as fast as a cheetah across the finish line.

What is a simile?

200

SWISH! The basketball easily landed in the hoop for 3 points to win the game.

What is an onomatopoeia?

300

The baby bear backs into the bush.

What is alliteration?

400

The clock looked at me as if to say, "Hurry up!"

What is personification?

500

I could sleep forever after that long day at the zoo.

What is a hyerbole?

Plot

100

This part of plot is found before the rising action.

What is the conflict?

200

This part of the plot is the turning point of the story.

What is the climax?

300

This is the biggest part of the entire story.

What is the rising action?

400

This part of the plot map has characters, setting and backstory.

What is the exposition?

500

This part of the plot solves the main problem and wraps the story up.

What is the resolution.

Elements of Poetry

100

This is the strategy we use to analyze poetry.

TPCASTT

200

This is something that happens when the story changes attitudes.

What is a shift?

300

This is when you write positive or negative beside each stanza.

What is the author's attitude?

400

This is the lesson learned at the end of the poem.  You would use text evidence to find this.

What is the theme?

500

This is the person that is speaking in the poem and the author that wrote the poem.

What is the speaker and poet?

Text Features

100

This feature is found at the back of the book and has an alphabetical list of terms with definitions to help a reader understand words.

What is the glossary?

200

This feature has facts about a topic that relates to the main story beside it.

What is a sidebar?

300

This feature describes the image or explains the purpose of the image. 

What is a caption?

400

This features is a brief informative lists that help you organize and emphasize information quickly and effectively.

What is a bullet points?

500

This feature is tells what pages the reader can find certain topics and is located at the back of the book.

What is an index?

Author's Purpose

100

This is something that is funny, sad, or just a plain story.

What is entertainment?

200

This purpose has facts about a topic.

What is informational?

300

This purpose tries to convince you of something or to do something.

What is persuade?

400

This purpose is a process and may show steps in order.

What is explain?

500

This purpose includes adjectives about something or someone, and uses the 5 senses.

What is description?