A list of page numbers in the back of a book revealing where to find information regarding a given topic.
What is an index?
100
The part in a sentence that tells the reader what happened and why it happened.
What is cause and effect?
100
A book based on true events or people, but all facts may not be true.
What is historical fiction?
200
The part of a story when a character or characters struggle with a problem.
What is conflict?
200
It is raining cats and dogs outside.
What is an idiom?
200
When the author is stressing a particular vocabulary word in a passage that the reader may later be asked how it is used in the sentence, it is called this.
What is bold print?
200
When the reader is finding likenesses and differences of two different passages.
What is compare and contrast?
200
A book whose plot leads to the discovery of someone or something.
What is a mystery?
300
The time and location of a story.
What is setting?
300
Our new track member is a bolt of lightening.
What is a metaphor?
300
The written statement under a picture, graph, chart, etc. that reveals more detailed information for the reader.
What is a caption?
300
A general idea of what most of the passage or a paragraph is about.
What is the main idea?
300
A book that has the reader wondering if it was true or not.
What is realistic fiction?
400
The turning point in a story.
What is climax?
400
The wind kissed my cheeks as I walked outside.
What is personification.
400
A list of chapters and the pages where they begin, located in the front of a chapter book or textbook.
What is the table of contents?
400
A shorter version of a story or passage?
What is a summary?
400
A book or story that is set in futuristic times.
What is science fiction?
500
When a character(s) seem to have worked everything out.
What is resolution?
500
I shopped in a million stores today.
What is hyperbole?
500
This will give the reader some type of idea of what he/she may be reading about.
What is the title?
500
Drawing a conclusion based on clues and prior knowledge.
What is an inference?
500
A composition expressing emotion or imaginative thought, usually written in stanzas or free verse.