Fiction
Non-Fiction
Poetry
Mixed Bag
100

The sequence of events in a story.

What is Plot?

100

Words near a picture or photograph that help the reader better understand it.

What is a Caption?

100

Repetition of syllables, especially at the end of a verse line.

What is Rhyme?

100

Hints that the author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word in the text.

What is Context Clue?

200

The time, place and environment in which a story takes place.

What is Setting?

200

Helps readers see what someone or something looks like.

What are illustrations or photographs?

200

A unit of writing in which a poem is divided.

What is Line?

200

The message woven throughout the text or story.

What is Theme?

300

A person, animal, or thing in a story.

What is a Character?

300

Special headings that help the reader know what the next section of the text will be about.

What are Sub-Titles?

300

A series of lines grouped together in order to divide a poem.

What is Stanza?

300

The lesson that the text or story teaches about how to behave in the world.

What is Moral?

400

A perspective from which the story is being told.

What is Point of View?

400

Similar to a dictionary, helps readers define words from the book.

What is a Glossary?

400

Form of poetry that does not rely on rhyme or meter.

What is Free Verse?

400

Writes to inform, persuade, entertain, or make an argument.

What is Author's Purpose?

500

A struggle of two opposing forces in a story.

What is Conflict?

500

Helps readers identify key topics in the book in the order they are presented.

What is the Table of Contents?

500

Delivers information to the reader in the form of a story.

What is Prose Poetry?

500

A type of descriptive language used to convey meaning in a way that differs from its literal meaning.

What is Figurative Language?