Text Features
Tells the names of chapters and what pages those chapters start on.
What is a Table of Contents?
Audacious
3 syllables: au/da/cious
"Astro" in Astronaut or Astrology
"Astro" = space or stars
Another term for the perspective a story is told from.
What is Point of View?
Poverty is to Wealth as Sickness is to _________
Divides the text into sections and tells what each section will be about.
Interrogate
4 syllables: in/ter/ro/gate
"Vis" = see
A character can have both internal and external versions of this. It is another word for the problem in a story.
What is the conflict?
Student is to Teacher as Player is to _________
What is Coach?
A list of key vocabulary that appears in the text along with the definitions of those words.
What is a glossary?
Plagiarize
3 syllables: pla/giar/ize
"Cred" as in Credible or Incredulous
"Cred" = believe
The most exciting or suspenseful part of a story. The very top of the action.
What is the climax?
Polite is to Impolite as Responsible is to ___________
What is Irresponsible?
Explains what a photograph or illustration is about.
What is a caption?
Conscientious
4 syllables: con/sci/en/tious
"Photo" in Photosynthesis or Photograph
"Photo" = light
When an author gives us a hint about what might happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
Nice is to Unpleasant as Cowardly is to _________
What is Brave?
A list of words and phrases along with pages numbers where those terms appear usually found in the back of a book.
What is an index?
Chronological
5 syllables: chron/o/log/i/cal
"Scribe" as in "Transcribe" or "Inscribe"
"Scribe" = write
When human qualities are given to nonhuman things. For example: "The trees danced in the wind."
What is personification?
Virus is to Cold as Carelessness is to _________
What are Errors?