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Words, Words, and More Words
Story Elements
Reading Vocab
Text Features
Genres
100
A word that means the same or nearly the same as another word.
What is a synonym?
100
The time and place of the action in a book or play.
What is setting?
100
What comes before a root word that can change it's meaning.
What is a prefix?
100
Slanted letters that are used to make a word stand out.
What are italics?
100
Made up literature
What is fiction?
200
A word formed by combining two or more words.
What is a compound word?
200
The main events or action in a play or story.
What is the plot?
200
What comes after a root word that can change its meaning.
What is a suffix?
200
Dark print that makes words stand out.
What is bold?
200
A piece of writing that is factual (true).
What is nonfiction?
300
A word that means the opposite or another word.
What is an antonym?
300
The people or animals in a story or play.
What are the characters?
300
The order of events
What is sequence?
300
Test-makers use these to make words stand out (most, most likely, etc.).
What are capital letters?
300
Literature in stanzas that often has rhythm and meter.
What is poetry?
400
Day and night
What are antonyms?
400
The most exciting part in a story or play.
What is the climax?
400
Persuade, inform, or entertain
What are author's purposes?
400
An illustration with labeled parts to let the reader see what something might look like.
What is a diagram?
400
Literature that is written in parts for different characters.
What is a play?
500
A word that is pronounced and spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning.
What is a homonym?
500
2 parts: What is wrong in the story or play and how the end turns out. The p________ and s_________.
What is the problem and solution?
500
When something happens BECAUSE of something else. c____ and e____
What is cause and effect?
500
The explanation under an illustration or photograph.
What is a caption?
500
A story that could be real but didn't really happen.
What is realistic fiction?