Vocabulary
This is a synonym for contribute.
What is give?
This is the author of a play.
What is a playwright?
This text feature lets the reader know that a term is important to remember.
What are boldfaced words?
This is a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
This is the universal lesson or moral of a story.
What is theme?
This is a synonym for to give importance to something.
What is to emphasize?
These are the sections (chapters) of a play.
What are acts?
This text feature indicates a new section of information.
What is a heading or subheading?
This is a repetition of the beginning sound of words close to one another.
What is alliteration?
This is when a poet repeats a word, group of words, or line in a poem.
What is a refrain?
This is a synonym for to infer, imply, or hint.
What is to suggest?
This is list of people who appear in a play.
What is a cast of characters/actors?
This text feature gives more information about possibly unfamiliar words in a passage and appear at the bottom of the page.
What is a footnote?
This is a synonym for an exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
This type of traditional story passed down from generation to generation explains how things began and feature god and goddesses.
What is mythology?
This is a synonym for to communicate by statement, suggestion, gesture, or appearance. (Begins with a 'C'.)
What is to convey?
This is information telling the actors where to go onstage.
What are stage directions?
The author's main purpose in the article.
What is the main idea?
This is giving a non-living object human characteristics.
What is personification?
This type of expository writing gives step-by-step instructions.
What is order/sequence?
This is a synonym for to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information. Also, to infer, to understand. (Begins is a 'C'.)
What is to conclude?
True or False: All plays have 3 or more acts.
What is False?
This is the way an author organizes his ideas in a passage--there are generally 5 main ways to do this and signal words are often clues as to how the author is organizing his ideas.
What are text structures?
These are words that imitate sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
This is something you should bring to class with you the day of the STAAR test.
What is a snack, or a book to read, or a sharpened pencil, or a highlighter?