Poetry
A group of lines within the poem
What is a stanza
A story takes place during a thunderstorm at night in an old house. This detail mainly helps the reader understand this story element.
What is setting?
Two words that have the same or nearly the same meaning as another word.
What is a synonym?
What the text is about.
What is the topic?
The author's stance is also known as this.
What is the claim?
Using the same word, phrase or line over and over in a poem.
This is the most exciting part of the story when the problem reaches its highest point.
What is the climax?
Letters added to the beginning of a root or base word to change its meaning.
What is a prefix?
The most important idea in a paragraph or story. It tells what the text is mostly about.
What is the main idea?
What the author uses to back up their claim (identify both).
What are reasons and evidence?
comparing two things WITHOUT using like or as
What is a metaphor
A boy loses his backpack, searches the school, asks friends for help, and follows clues. These events are this part of the plot.
What is rising action?
A group of words that has a subject and a verb but does NOT express a complete thought (cannot stand by itself)
What is a dependent clause.
A passage explains that heavy rain caused flooding in a town and describes the results. This is an example of which text structure?
What is cause and effect?
When an author makes statements that can be proven as true.
What are facts.
What is the acronym we use to analyze our poetry.
What is TSWIFT?
This is when a reader uses clues from the story and what they already know to figure out something the author does not say directly.
What is inferencing?
The seven coordinating conjunctions used to connect independent clauses.
What is FANBOYS?
In an informational text, the sentence or idea that tells what the text is mostly about is called the central idea. The facts, examples, or details that explain or prove it are called this.
What are supporting details?
A writer might explain what someone who disagrees would say, and then show why it’s wrong. This is called this.
What is counter claim?
This is the lesson or message a reader learns from the poem, like “be kind to others” or “never give up.”
What is Theme?
An author writes a story to show how a character learns to be honest after making a mistake. This is the author’s reason for writing, also known as this.
What is author's purpose?
When a writer improves a draft by adding, deleting, combining, or rearranging words and sentences to make the writing clearer and easier to understand, they are doing this.
What is Revising?
How authors organize their ideas in a way that makes it easier for readers to understand, remember, and navigate information
What are text structures.
If the author says, “Many people feel unsafe because of broken streetlights,” the reader can infer the author is trying to say this about the neighborhood.
What is it is unsafe, dangerous or needs new lights.