Poetry
Nonfiction
Fiction
Drama
All Things About Genres
100

Words witht the same ending sounds.

What is rhyme?
100

Feature that lists important dates in chronological order.

What is a timeline?

100

This is the main idea or the lesson being taught in a story.

What is a theme?

100

This is a story intended to be performed in front of an audience.

What is drama?

100

He or she is the author of a play.

What is a playwright?
200
The feeling the author is trying to make the reader feel.

What is mood?

200

Feature that tell the main ideas and what pages they are on.

What is the table of contents?

200

This is a literary term for a person in a story.

What is a character?

200

This is the written form of a play.

What is a script?

200

Summarize, make text connections and identify the theme. 

What are after reading strategies?

300
Imagining what the setting looks like. 

What is visualization?

300

Feature that shows exactly what something looks like.

What is a photograph?

300

This is the part of the story where the story gets complicated with lots of problems.

What is the rising action?

300

A type of dramatic work that is light and humorous and usually has a happy ending.

What is a comedy?

300

This is the very beginning of the story.

What is the exposition?

400

The type of poem that only has 3 lines.

What is a haiku poem?

400

Words under the picture that tells the reader about the picture.

What is a caption?

400

An example of this would be if Mr. Graci was battling Dr. B in an epic game of "Halo: Reach".

What is man vs man conflict?

400

The central message or idea of a drama.

What is the theme?

400

Write questions and/or wondering and any unknown words.

What are during reading strategies?

500
It is the name of a paragraph in a poem.

What is a stanza?

500

The way that nonfiction is organized to tell the reader about different parts or main ideas of the section.

What are chapters and headings?

500

This is when reality is the opposite of what you expect.

What is irony?

500

The drama element portrayed here: [Wyona is sitting on the couch. She sees Paul and jumps to her feet.] Wyona. [Angrily.] What do you want?

What are stage directions?

500

Read the title, Find the name of the author, and predict what the text may be about.

What are before reading strategies?