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This is the feeling a story creates
Mood or Tone
A scene in a story that takes place before the current events.
What is a flashback?
What are statistics?
Facts with numbers
The writer's main opinion or position is called
Claim
"The classroom was a zoo" is what type of figurative language?
Metaphor
This is the perspective from which a story is told (1st person or 3rd person)
Point of view
The person telling the story is called this.
What is the narrator
Main idea or central idea is the author's main point or what the text is mostly about
Facts and reasons used to support a claim are called
Evidence
"My backpack weighs a ton" is what type of figurative language?
Hyperbole
Headings, subtitles, charts, bold words, pictures, and infographics are all types of...
text features
The problem or struggle in a story is called
conflict
The order in which information is organized by time is called
chronological order
The opposing side of an argument is called
Counterclaim
"Through the halls he ran as fast a cheetah in the Savanna" is what type of figurative language
Simile
What is a caption?
A description underneath an image or picture
Hints about what may happen later in the story are called
foreshadowing
This text structure explains why something happens and what happens as a result
cause and effect
When an author tries to convince the reader to do something, it's called...
Persuade
"My alarm yelled at me at 6:00am" is what type of figurative language?
Personification
A group of lines or a paragraph in a poem is called what?
Stanza
The most exciting or important part of the story is called
climax
What is compare and contrast?
When a writer responds to the counterclaim
Rebuttal
"Dark, deep, dreadful darkness" is what type of figurative language?
Alliteration