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Text Structures
Text Features
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Plot
Figurative Language
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In order by time

What is chronological?

100
This feature appears before a section and tells you what it will be about

What is a heading?

100
What is autobiography?
A genre in nonfiction which is a story of one's own life.
100
What is climax?
The highest point of interest, the place where ideas are drawn together, an important turning point in a series of actions, or the most forceful event in a story.
100
What is simile?
When you compare to unlike things using the words like or as.
200

Ordered steps/directions/recipes

What is sequence?

200

This feature describes a picture.

What is a caption?

200

What is "bio"?

A root word that means life.

200
What is resolution?
Concludes the action and ensures that all important plot lines have been tied.
200
What is onomatopoeia?
The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
300

An issue and steps for resolving it

What is problem & solution?

300
This feature lists topics AT THE END of a text and tells you where to find them

What is an index

300
What is nonfiction?
Books that are about real things, people, events, and places.
300
What is exposition?
The beginning of the story, where the characters and setting are introduced.
300

Sally sells seashells by the sea shore is an example of....

What is alliteration?

400

An event/action and the reasons why it happened

What is cause and effect?
400
This feature defines bold words in the text

What is the glossary?

400
What is setting?
An essential trait of a biography that helps the reader understand the subject in context to the historical time period and place he or she was born in.
400

What are rising action events?

Events in a story that build up the climax.

400
What is dialogue tag?
Tells us when a character is talking and identifies which character is talking.
500
Similarities and differences between two topics/subjects

What is compare & contrast?

500

This feature shows important words in the text.

What are bold words?

500

What does analyze mean?

to break down/break apart

500
What are falling action events?
Events that lead up to the resolution of a story.
500
What is personification?
Giving an object or an animal human traits.