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Genre
Figurative Language
Authors Purpose
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Hodge Podge
100
a story about fairies or magical creatures, usually for children
What is a fairy tale?
100
his hair is as white as snow
What is a simile?
100
to write for people and make them laugh.
What is to entertain?
100
how the author makes the reader feel as he/she reads the story/text?
What is the mood?
100
using information from the text to decide what will most likely happen next
What is making a prediction?
200
a story that can actually happen and is true to life
What is realistic fiction?
200
her home was a prison
What is a metaphor?
200
to make readers be convinced of something
What is to persuade?
200
the order of events or steps in a text
What is sequence?
200
the structure of events that makes up the main story of the text
What is the plot?
300
songs, stories, myths, and proverbs of a people or "folk" as handed down by word of mouth
What is a folklore?
300
the leaves danced in the wind
What is personification?
300
write to teach you about something.
What is to inform?
300
the meaning of the word within a text
What is vocabulary ?
300
a category or type of the text organized by common literart elements
What is genre?
400
story with fictional characters and events in a historical setting
What is a historical fiction?
400
My eyes widened at the sight of the mile-high ice cream cones we were having for dessert
What is a hyperbole?
400
a textbook is an example of this type of purpose
What is to inform?
400
the reason something happens and what happens as a result
What is cause/effect?
400
combining background knowledge personal experience and textual information to determine meaning
What is drawing conclusions?
500
true stories written by someone else of the actual person
What is an autobiography or biography?
500
sally sells sea shells by the seashore
What is an alliteration?
500
Charlotte's Web or the Chocolate Touch
What is to entertain?
500
the big idea in the text that tells the reader what the text is MOSTLY about
What is the main idea?
500
two or more things are alike and how they are different
What is compare and contrast?