Story Elements
The message, lesson, or moral in the story.
Theme
The girls are like two peas in a pod.
In this sentence, what type of figurative language device is used?
Simile
The most important point or idea that an author is trying to make in a nonfiction text is known as the ...
Central Idea
True or False: A theme can be a single word.
FALSE - themes are always a sentence or statement
Themes are not explicit. What does explicit mean?
Not clearly stated
What is a metaphor?
Comparing 2 unlike things not using like or as.
Ex. The girl is a thorny rose.
What are you doing when you copy evidence from the text word for word (exactly as it is written in the text)?
Hint: You always put quotation marks around this type of evidence.
Quoting
The sentence: He can't sit still; he must have ants in his pants uses what type of figurative language?
Idiom
These are words (adjectives) we use to describe characters.
Character Traits
The tone is the ________ of the poem, while the mood is the ______ the reader gets.
The tone is the attitude of the poem, while the mood is the feeling the reader gets.
When you take what you know about a topic and add new information based on what you have read, what are you doing?
Inferencing
Readers use ________ and ________ inferences to develop a central idea.
Implicit / Explicit
A strategy for summarizing stories/fiction is...
Somebody
Wanted
But
Then
So
WHAM! Is an example of which figurative language?
If you get an idea while reading, but it is not clearly stated. Is it inferecing or explicit?
Inference
If a text uses the following signal words: similar, same, alike, both, or unlike then the text is using which type of informational text structure?
Compare and Contrast
What is a plot?
Give an example of personification
(answer may vary but it should give a human like characteristic to a non-human thing)
Based off this quote: "She walked down the creakig stairs, slowly she rounded the corner and jumped!" What can you infer about the character's feelings
She got scared.
If a text uses the following signal words: first, second, third, next, after, or finally then the text is using which type of informational text structure?
Sequencing