Fiction
These stories are short stories that always teach a lesson, and the characters tend to be animals.
Fables
Which type of nonfiction text is designed to purely teach you something.
Informational
The words the characters say in a play is most commonly known as ______.
Dialogue
Poems are made up of _____ and _____.
Lines and stanzas
What is an adjective?
words that describe a noun
These types of stories are usually passed down through generations. They are fun and try to explain things.
Folktales
in an argumentative text, what is it called when we refer to the opinion of the author?
Claim
The actions the characters must do in a play is known as ________.
a) Stage directions
b) Stage actions
c) Stage reactions
True or false: There is only one type of poem out there
False
What word replaces a noun to avoid repeating it, like using "she" instead of "Sarah"?
Pronouns
True or False: Dramas cannot be fictional
False
Name 3 text features that are commonly found in a nonfiction text.
titles, headings, subheadings, bolded words, italicized words, glossary, photos, captions, diagrams, charts and graphs. etc.
What do we see at the beginning of every drama we read?
List of characters
Which sound device deals with the sounds in a poem?
What do you call words that mean the same thing, like "big" and "huge"?
Synonyms
Pecos Bill is considered to be what type of fictional story?
Folktale
Who the author is speaking to is normally referred to as the ________.
Audience
What makes dramas extra special? They are the only types of literature that can do this.
Which sound device is found in this chunk of the poem:
Her eyes sparkle like the stars in the night sky,
Simile
What punctuation mark separates a city and a state, or items in a list?
Commas
Every fictional story follows this important thing. You learned about it since 1st grade. What is it?
Plot Elements
Describe in detail one nonfiction text we read in class. This answer needs to satisfy Mr. Cruz in order to get points.
Mr. Cruz will decide
Dramas are broken up into parts. Like a book has paragraphs and chapters, so do dramas. What are they called and how do they relate to paragraphs and chapters?
Acts are like chapters in a book
Scenes are like paragraphs in a chapter
What is the rhyme scheme in this stanza?
My cat is gray.
My cat is fat.
My cat is cute.
I like my cat.
ABCB
Change the sentence "She sings a song" into the future tense.
She will sing a song.