Text Features
Literary Terms
Vocabulary
Text Types and Structure
Miscellaneous
100
a box that off sets important information
What is a sidebar?
100
the suspense building in a story
What is the rising action?
100
a comparison without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
100
A text structure that tells a story
What is a narrative?
100
the series of events in story
What is a narrative?
200
bolded dots that indicate important information
What are bullets?
200
The part of plot where the setting, characters, and basic situation are introduced
What is the setting?
200
an educated guess based on prior knowledge and what you are reading
What is an inference?
200
the text type that is written to make the reader do or believe in something
What is persuasion?
200
this root word means "death"
What is mort?
300
information that explains a picture or graphic
What is a caption?
300
something that can be proven
What is a fact?
300
extremem exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
300
the text structure that provides ways to solve dilemmas
What is problems and solution?
300
slanted text
What is italics?
400
found at the beginning of a book and identifies units, topics, and page numbers
What is a table of contents?
400
the overall feeling of a piece of writing
What is mood?
400
the reason an author's write a piece of literature
What is the author's purpose?
400
the author's purpose for writing a narrative
What is for entertainment?
400
found at the back of a book and gives the page numbers for certain topics of information
What is an index?
500
this text feature is written in sequential order and shows historical events
What is a timeline?
500
going back to an earlier event before the story takes place
What is flashback?
500
the major force opposed the protagonist
What is the antagonist?
500
The author's purpose for writing an expository text
What is to inform?
500
found at the back of an expository text and gives definitions of difficult words
What is a glossary?