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Fiction
Expository
Poetry
Test taking strategies
Genre
100
The lesson or message throughout the story.
What is a theme?
100
The reason biographies are written. 
What are to show the important events in someone's life that led to their accomplishments.  
100
Examples are rhyme scheme, internal rhyme alliteration, onomatopoeia, repetiotion.
What are sound effects?
100
The night before STAAR I am going to .....
What is sleep early?
100

Stories based on made up characters, like animals that talk.

What is fiction?
200
All the events throughout the story.
What is plot?
200
Examples are compare and contrast, sequential order, chronological order, cause and effect, or classification scheme.
What are organizational patterns?
200
The point of view the poem is being narrated by. 
Who is the speaker?
200
Before I come to school the morning o my STAAR test I will have a nutricious ...
What is breakfast?
200

Stage directions, props, and playwrights are apart of--

What is drama?
300
Things that must be included in a summary of a story.
What is characters, problem (conflict), climax, and solution (resolution) and End?
300
Usually both fiction and biographies share this same element. This is the reason biographies are called Literary non fiction. 
What is characters, conflict, resolution?
300
How do you analyze a poem.
What is to write a summary of each paragraph?
300
I will do this when I can not think anymore because I am tired...
What ask for a restroom brake?
300

The story of a person's life written by that person.

What is an autobiography?
400
This narrator reveals the thoughts and feelings of ALL the characters in a story.
What is third person?
400
How to analyze a non-fiction text?
what is to write a summary for every paragrpgh?
400
Language which creates imagery in a poem

Examples: metaphor, simile, idioms, hyperbole, personification 

What is figurative language?
400
I will use each one of my ______ to be successful in my test!
What is strategies?
400

A book about tigers is an example of --

What is nonfiction?
500
This provides clues or hints about what may happen later in the story. These hints are found toward the BEGINNING of the story!
What is foreshadowing?
500
The steps to finding main idea. 

What is:

1. Read the paragraph once. Ask Who? What?

2. Read 2nd time and underline repeated ideas, words. 

3. If you need to and have time make t-chart.

500
Examples are similes, metaphors, and personification.
What is figurative language?
500
When I can't test anymore because it is exhausting, I will...
What I will push myself to do better!
500
The story of Barack Obama written by Ms. Quintero is...
What is a biography?