When the author gives you information in a particular format
What is text structure or organization?-
100
The group of lines placed together separated by spaces within a poem.
What is a stanza?
100
Passages or selections written with information about the past. This genre is...
What is historical non-fiction
100
A made up story that has a real setting, events and characters that could be real.
What is realistic fiction?
100
The message or lesson that the author conveys to the reader.
What is the theme?
200
The author includes data, graphs, and other numerical information.
What is text features.
200
When the poet exaggerates to get their point across.
What is hyperbole?
200
Photgraphs, captions, illustrations are examples
What are text features?
200
A story that has been passed down through oral tradition and is told by a narrator.
What is a folktale?
200
A brief paragraph that tells the reader what the reading selection or passage is about.
What is a summary?
300
Chronological (Sequential), Compare and Contrast, Description, Problem and Solution, Cause and Effect.
What are examples of text structures? (Name all Five
300
The sound you hear at the end of the line sometimes the pattern is AB AB
What is rhyme?
300
When the author tries to persuade the reader to take a stand or position. The author is for or against something.
What is the author's viewpoint
300
A stylistic element that involves three of something.
What is the rule of three?
300
The important reason why the author wrote the selection.
What is the author's purpose?
400
This skill includes the exposition, rising action, climax, turning point, falling action, and denoument
What are the elements of the plot?
400
The beginning sound of a word that is repeated in a line.
What is alliteration?
400
The author tells the readers about events in the selection or passage, but is not a part of the story.
What is third person point of view?
400
Stories told that usually involve a magic helper or the rule of three-we can thank Walt Disney for many of them.
What is a fairy tale?
400
Details are used to find this. Skim the first paragraph and last paragraph to find this.
What is the main idea.
500
A strategy that will help you when you realize you have lost your way in the passage.
What is reread and ask questions of the text
500
Language the poet uses to appeal to the five senses, can be metaphors or similes.
What is sensory or figurative language?
500
This question can be asked in any genre. The narrator of a story is a part of the story and gives details about the events. The author uses words like "I" and "me" or "we".
What is first person narrator?
500
The person or enchanted creature that comes to help the main character.
What is a magic helper.
500
The reader looks for this in the selection to prove and disprove their answers.