Fiction
The people in a story who have dialogue.
What are characters?
This is how an author organizes his writing by using one of the following: cause and effect, compare and contrast, problem and solution, sequential order, or description.
What is organizational structure or text structure?
This is the list of actors in a drama which may include a protagonist and antagonist.
What is the cast of characters?
Words that are layered with meaning in which the reader is not supposed to take literally. This includes similes, metaphors, imagery, personification, idioms, and adages.
What is figurative language?
The use of hints or clues that suggest what action is to come later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
The specific location, time, time period, date, or weather in which the story takes place.
What is the setting?
These are images such as photographs, timelines, diagrams, maps, charts, or graphs; that help the reader understand the information in the text.
What are graphic features?
The objects that the actors use on stage which are movable or portable.
What are the props?
The repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of two or more words.
What is alliteration?
Taking what you know and clues from the text to make an educated guess.
What is inference?
The biggest problem of the story; may be internal or with someone else.
What is the conflict?
Special text that helps the reader understand what is important such as headings, subheadings, captions, special type, italics, or highlights.
What are text features?
Notes from the playwright that tell actors how to move or with what emotion certain lines should be read; also gives information about how to set up stage, props, and costumes.
What are stage directions?
The lines in a poem that are chunked together.
What are stanzas?
The reason the author writes.
What is author's purpose?
The message, moral, or lesson in the story that the author is trying to teach the reader.
What is theme?
This is a genre that includes essays, blogs, speeches, editorials, textbooks, how-to instructions.
What is informational?
The conversation between characters that is read aloud by actors.
What is dialogue?
The pattern of rhyming lines (ABAB, AABB).
What is rhyme scheme?
These are words or phrases that help give meaning to an unknown word. Sometimes you have to read before and after the word.
What are context clues?
The sequence of events in the story which includes the rising actions, the climax, and the falling action.
What is plot?
This is what the text is mostly about and can be found in the introduction and conclusion of a passage. It may be found in the first and last sentence of a paragraph.
What is the main idea?
This is the part of a play in which the setting does not change.
What is a scene?
Words and phrases that create imagery by using the 5 senses.
What are sensory details?
First, look for and cross out the answers that do not include the end. Next, find the best who, what, where, when, why, and how in the remaining answers. Make sure that it includes the beginning, middle, and end.
What is the summary?