Text that tells many details about one topic and includes many owrds that may tell how something looks, acts, feels, sounds, tastes, or smells.
What is descriptive text organization.
100
When a sentence contains several words that begin with the same letter or sound.
What is alliteration?
100
Writing that is real, factual, or informational.
What is non-fiction?
100
Words around an unknown word that help you find the meaning of the unknown word.
What is context clues?
100
What you should use to organize your thoughts before you write a BCR.
What is a graphic organizer?
200
Sequential or chronological, cause and effect, problem and solution, comparision, description, and main idea and detail.
What is organizational patterns of text.
200
A comparison between two things that uses the word "like" or "as."
What is simile.
200
Writing that is not real - writing that is made up, like a story or a fairy tale.
What is fiction?
200
The words spoken by a character in a story or an actor in a play.
What is dialogue?
200
A strategy where you get rid of the answer choices that are impossible or wrong.
What is process of elimination?
300
Texts that tell the reason for and the result of an event or events.
What is cause and effect organization.
300
A comparison between two things that does not use the word "like" or "as."
What is metaphor?
300
Writing that contains elements such as rhyme, rhythm, or figurative language.
What is poetry?
300
The author's use of setting or words in a story to create an overall feeling for the reader.
What is mood?
300
How you solve vocab problems where the word is used in a sentence like this:
The jovial boy was laughing, clapping, and jumping in happines.
What does jovial mean?
What is use context clues?
400
Texts that are written in the order that events happened and includes words such as first and next, and may also include dates and times.
What is sequential or chronological text organization?
400
When the author stretches the truth.
What is exaggeration?
400
Writing that is written for characters to act out parts of the story.
What is drama, or a play?
400
A group of related lines in a poem.
What is stanza?
400
The strategy you use to solve multiple meaning vocab questions, where they ask you "find a sentence where the underlined word is used the same way..."
What is substitute a phrase or another word for the underlined word?
500
Texts that tell how two or more things are similar or different.
What is compare and contrast text organization?
500
WHen a poet or author repeats the same word or line over and over again.
What is repetition?
500
A certain syle of writing.
What is a genre?
500
A recounting of the main events or important ideas of a reading selection.