Types of Text Structure
Good Readers Know
Figurative Language
Literary Terms
100

Text structure that presents a problem and ways that it can be fixed

What is problem/solution

100

Great readers should always be able to determine the _____________________ of a text by looking for key ideas and details

What is main idea

100
time is money
What is Metaphor
100

When the author gives suggestions about what is to come

What is foreshadowing

200

Text structure that involves the order of things (steps or time order)

What is Sequence or Chronological

200

An object or image in a text that represents something

What is symbol or symbolism

200
Wind whipping wildly during the storm
What is Alliteration
200
the feeling or atmosphere the writer creates for the reader.
What is Mood
300

Text structure that tells what event occurs and what happens after the event

What is an Cause and Effect

300

When you draw a conclusion from what you already know and what you've read in the text, what is that called?

What is inferencing or to infer

300
The sun is smiling
What is personification
300
a message about life or the moral to a story
What is Theme
400

Text structure that provides details about something

What is description

400

It is important to ________ evidence from the text to support your answer.

What is cite

400
My mother's handbag weighs a ton.
What is Hyperbole
400
The narrator is a character in the story, and uses I and we.
What is First-person point of view
500

text structure that shows similarities and differences between two or more things

What is compare/contrast

500

type of novel in which the narrative is told through poetic form

What is a verse novel

500
The pounding rain was like a million fists being against the window pane.
What is simile or hyperbole
500

the character who opposes the main character

antagonist