Text Elements
What is the setting in a story?
When and where the story takes place.
What is the main idea of a passage, text, or story?
What a piece of writing is mainly about.
What is point of view?
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is a 'line' in poetry?
Similar to a sentence but in a poem, a line is a row of text in a poem.
What does compare mean?
To compare how two things are alike/different or how one is better than the other.
What is plot?
The events that make up a story.
What does inference mean?
To draw a reasonable conclusion, or guess, from the information presented.
What does character perspective mean?
The way in which any character in a text or passage views, looks at, or thinks about something.
What is a stanza?
Similar to a paragraph but in a poem, a part of a poem consisting of two or more lines arranged together as a unit.
What does 'cause' mean in cause and effect?
The reason why something happens.
What is a summary?
A short paragraph that states the beginning, middle, and end of a story or passage.
What are context clues?
Clues in surrounding text that help the reader determine the meaning of an unknown word.
What is first person point of view?
A story told from the viewpoint of one of the characters using the pronouns "I" , "me", "my".
What is a speaker?
The person that narrates the poem.
What is the difference between fiction and nonfiction?
Fiction: A story based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact. (Fake)
Nonfiction: Writing that tells about real-life, people, places, things, ideas, or events.
What are character traits?
Qualities that a characters possesses (Ex: honesty).
What are text features?
The parts of text that stand out (diagram, table of contents, index, etc).
What is third person point of view?
A story told by a narrator from outside the story.
What is the difference between a free verse and rhymed verse poem?
Free Verse: Poetry that does not contain regular patterns of rhythm or rhyme.
Rhymed Verse: Poetry with a strict rhythmic pattern and rhyme scheme (Pattern of rhyming lines).
What is sequence?
The following of one event after another (Ex: first, then, finally).
What is a narrator?
The person who is telling the story; the speaker.
What is author's purpose?
The reason an author writes the text--to persuade, inform, explain and entertain.
What is an autobiography?
The story of a person's life written by that person in first person point of view.
What is a haiku?
A poem consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines. The first line has 5 syllables, the second line 7, and the third line 5.
What does it mean when an author is trying to persuade?
To convince the reader of the author's point of view.