Genre
A fictional story that is organized by the author by giving an event or date in the past but the characters and/or dialog is made up.
What is a HISTORICAL FICTION?
Sudden misfortunes, events with terrible results
What is a DISASTER?
A comparison in which the author directly compares two unlike things based on a quality they share.
What is a METAPHOR?
Thoughts an author has about the topic they are writing about. What are these author's thoughts or feelings called?
What is the AUTHOR'S POINT OF VIEW?
The condition that is happening at the moment
¿What is WEATHER?
A made up story passed from generation to generation explaining basic values and concerns of a culture. It teaches a lesson or moral.
What is a FOLKTALE?
Tools needed for work or play
What is EQUIPMENT?
A comparison in which the author used the words like or as to compare two things.
What is a SIMILE?
What a text is mostly about
What is the MAIN IDEA?
A scientist that studies the weather
What is a METEOROLOGIST?
A story that features animals, plants or forces of nature that are given human qualities, or personification, to teach a moral or lesson.
What is a FABLE?
Stopping something from happening
What is PREVENTION?
A phrase or group of words that mean something different from the literal meaning of each individual word. For example: "Let's stick together!"
What is an IDIOM?
A strategy that can used to summarize most fictional stories
What is SOMEBODY WANTED BUT SO THEN?
Surprised or amazed
What is ASTONISHED?
A type of fictional story in which the author uses great exaggeration, or hyperbole. The trails and feats of the main character are exaggerated and humorous.
What is a TALL TALE?
clumsy, not graceful
What is AWKWARD?
the formation of a word from a sound, for example Brr!
What is ONOMATOPOEIA?
A prefix that means again
What is RE-?
A statement that tells us what will or may happen
What is a FORECAST?
Text which gives important facts and information about a topic.
What is an EXPOSITORY TEXT, or INFORMATIONAL TEXT?
Snow and rain are an example of this
What is PRECIPITATION?
When an author uses words for things or animals to give them human traits or characteristics.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
A prefix that means not or the opposite of
What is UN-?
A suffix that means without
What is -LESS?