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Text Stucture
Author's Purpose
Story Elements
Prefix
Synonym
200
Describes something. Tells what it looks like or does.
What is description?
200
When an author writes to give you information about something.
What is to inform?
200
The time, day or year, and place in a story.
What is setting?
200
not opposite of, apart
What is the prefix "dis"?
200
observe, spied, or glanced
What is saw?
400
A person, thing, or event that makes something happen. Whatever is produced is the result.
What is cause and effect?
400
When an author writes to try to make someone else believe what he/she believes.
What is to persuade?
400
The main idea or what the story is about.
What is plot?
400
against
What is the prefix "anti"?
400
idolized, prefer, or cherish.
What is like?
600
To find out or point out how persons or things are alike or how they are different.
What is compare and contrast?
600
When an author writes just for the enjoyment of the topic.
What is to entertain?
600
A moment of great intensity in a story.
What is climax?
600
not
What is the prefix "non" or "un"?
600
cackles, hee hawed, or chuckled.
What is laugh?
800
Tells the order of things. Clue words: first, then, next, after, later, finally.
What is sequence?
800
Tells why the author wrote the story.
What is author's purpose?
800
Tells about a problem.
What is conflict or problem?
800
again, back
What is the prefix "re"?
800
elated, jolly, or thrilled.
What is happy?
1000
Who, did what, where, when, and why. (Characters, setting, problem, events, and solution).
What is main idea?
1000
When the author writes about something important to them that shows how they feel about something.
What is to express ideas and feelings?
1000
When a problem is solved.
What is solution?
1000
wrong
What is the prefix "mis"?
1000
minute, microscopic, or minuscule.
What is little?