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Authors Purpose
Polygons
Measurement Mania!
Text Features
Literary Devices
100
To inform or teach the reader about something
What is a non-fiction article
100
Has four sides and they are all equal
What is a square?
100
To measure the length of your pencil, you would choose_______?
What are inches?
100
A list of key terms in alphabetical order.
What is a glossary?
100
Repetition of words with the same beginning sounds.
What is Alliteration?
200
To convince the reader to buy something
What is an advertisement
200
Has three sides and the angles are equal to 180 degress
What is a triangle?
200
abbreviation-centimeter
What is cm?
200
An alphabetical listing of the key names, terms, events, and topics, with page numbers?
What is an Index?
200
A figure of speech in which things are compared using the words “like” or “as”
What is a simile?
300
To entertain the reader
What is a fiction story?
300
Has 7 sides
What is a heptagon?
300
There are 36 inches in a _________.
What is a yard?
300
Show the main idea of the text and help the reader by letting them know what they are about to read?
What is the Title?
300
A figure of speech in which things are compared by stating that one thing is another
What is a metaphor?
400
To teach the reader a lesson
What is a fable, fairytale, or myth?
400
Is a four-sided polygon with two pairs of parallel sides. The sum of the angles is 360 degrees.
What is a parallelogram?
400
To measure the length of your desk, would you use inches or feet?
Inches
400
Is a drawing that shows or explains something.
What is a diagram?
400
The sun played peek-a-boo with the clouds.” This is an example of _________
What is Personification?
500
Jeremiah and Ise both read a story called " A Dozen Spokes" about a family's experience during the Gold Rush. Ise says the purpose was to entertain the reader and Jeremiah says it was to inform the reader about the Gold Rush. Who is right and why?
Ise is right. The story is a historical fiction piece and the purpose of those stories is to entertain the reader with a story.
500
Has 6 vertices.
What is a hexagon?
500
What unit of measurement would you use to find out much your best friend weighed?
What are kilograms or pounds?
500
Alioune was looking at his brother's yearbook and wanted to find all the pages where his brother was listed...where would he look?
Index
500
If I can’t buy that new game, I will die. This is an example of__________.
What is a hyperbole?