Literary Texts
The location and time in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
A list of words and definitions.
What is the glossary or dictionary?
A word that means almost the same thing.
What is a synonym?
"The tiny white flowers dotted the morning mountainside like patches of snow" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
A piece of writing that tells a story. It has characters, settings, and a plot.
What is a narrative or fiction?
This is when a character is talking.
What is dialogue?
A picture that includes labels of certain parts.
What is a diagram?
A word that means the opposite.
What is an antonym?
"The stars were candles guiding the weary travelers" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
This type of writing convinces the reader to do something or to agree with something.
What is persuasive writing?
This is the list of people in a play.
What is the cast of characters?
A passage that is explained in order of when the events happened uses this text structure.
What is chronological order?
This reference lists synonyms for words.
What is a thesaurus?
"This cat weights a ton" is an example of this.
What is a hyperbole?
This type of writing provides facts and explains something.
What is informational or nonfiction writing?
This is the part of the story when the suspense peaks and the problem is solved.
What is the turning point or the climax?
This is what the author uses to add to an article. For example: captions, diagrams, illustrations, graphs
What is a text features?
When this is added to the beginning of a root word, it makes a new word and chenges the meaning of the word.
What is a prefix?
"Storm clouds threatened to flood the wheat fields in the Midwestern region" is an example of this.
What is personification?
Correct: my mom took angie and me to disney.
My mom took Angie and me to Disney.
This is the meaning of the story and teaches a life lesson.
What is theme?
The paragraph that usually reemphasizes and summarizes the main idea in an informational passage.
What is the last paragraph or conclusion
Words that sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings.
What are homophones?
Please pick Peter up from the park.
What is alliteration?
Correct: Tiny studyed more hard and got a gooder grade on todays test.
Tiny studied harder and got a better grade on today's test.