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Figurative Language
Text Features
Text Structure
Genre
Reference Sources
100
A comparison that does not use like or as
What is a metaphor?
100
Illustration
What is Picture?
100
The action or condition that makes something happen.
What is Cause?
100
Fiction genre written to express feelings; usually has lines and stanzas
What is Poetry?
100
A yearly publication that gives facts and statistics about a wide variety of subjects.
What is Almanac?
200
Human characteristics given to nonhuman things.
What is Personification?
200
Text that shows the chronological order of events.
What is Time Line?
200
A decision made about a passage based on facts in the text and any inferences.
What is Conclusion?
200
Imagines a futuristic or alien world; includes inventions that could exist in the future.
What is Science Fiction?
200
An alphabetical list of words and their definitions, origins, spellings, and pronunciations.
What is Dictionary?
300
A comparison of two unlike things that uses like or as.
What is Simile?
300
A diagram with overlapping circles to show how things are alike and different.
What is Venn Diagram?
300
A logical guess based upon information in the text and personal knowledge.
What is Inference?
300
Tells the true story of a real person's life, using firsthand accounts.
What is Biography?
300
An electronic, online network of Web sites.
What is Internet?
400
Exaggeration to make a point.
What is Hyperbole?
400
A table that shows information in columns and rows
What is Chart?
400
The most important thought or idea given by an author.
What is Main Idea?
400
A story that teaches a lesson; usually has animals that act like humans.
What is Fable?
400
A factual book about one topic or field of study.
What is Textbook?
500
Words that are spelled like their sounds.
What is Onomatopoeia?
500
Visual aid that plots and compaes numbers.
What is Graph?
500
What someone thinks or feels; cannot be proven true or false.
What is Opinion?
500
Features magical characters; often starts with "Once upon a time."
What is Fairy Tale?
500
Factual information about a wide varitey of topics in a series of volumes.
What is Encyclopedia?