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Non Fiction Skills
Elements of Fiction
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Get at least eight of these Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday night.
What are hours of sleep?
100

This is a type or genre of writing based on facts and real life rather than a made up or fictional story. 

What is non fiction?
100
Poems, stories, plays, and novels.
What is fiction?
100
Read it at least three times.
What is the passage (story, poem, selection, etc.)?
100
Person versus society.
What is external conflict.
200
Eat this on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday morning.
What is breakfast?
200
Compare and contrast, question and answer, sequence, problem and solution, cause and effect, and description.
What are types of text structures?
200
Every work of fiction has one.
What is plot?
200
Giving human characteristics to something that is not human.
What is personification?
200
I can do it. I will rock! I am the best. I will get an awesome score because I am smart.
What is a positive attitude?
300
Do this at the end of each segment.
What is check your work?
300
Topic + Main Point About The Topic.
What is main idea?
300
Where and when the story takes place.
What is setting?
300
A group of lines.
What are stanzas?
300
On multiple choice questions, I cross out choices that I know cannot be correct answers until I am left with one answer.
What is the process of elimination?
400
Do this if you get stuck.
What is take a break, relax, reread, flag the question, or take a drink of water?
400
All students at OMS will do great on the MCAs.
What is an opinion?
400
The most exciting part of the whole story.
What is the climax?
400
Comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
400
Making a logical guess or reading between the lines.
What is making an inference?
500
750.
What is seventh grade proficiency on the MCA?
500
To persuade, to inform, or to entertain.
What is author's purpose?
500
Protagonist and antagonist.
What are character types?
500
A direct comparison.
What is a metaphor?
500
You don't know a word so you look at other words in the text to try to determine the meaning of the unknown word.
What are context clues?