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Reading Terms
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Poetry
Drama
100
Good readers is this strategy when they use the words they just read to create a picture in their minds.
What is visualization?
100
The author's purpose for writing fiction.
What is entertain?
100
This text feature is used to show a visual picture in nonfiction texts to provide the reader with more information.
What are maps, graphs, or charts?
100
A group of lines in poetry.
What is stanza?
100
The name for the group of people in a play.
What is cast or characters?
200
The types of these are: character vs. character, character vs. nature, character vs. self, character vs. technology
What are types of conflict?
200
Fiction always includes this description of time and place.
What is setting?
200
This text feature helps me know what words are important in the text.
What are underlined or bold words?
200
"The wind whistled in my ear" is what type of figurative language?
What is personification?
200
These are the words a character would say.
What is dialogue?
300
You use these to help figure out a new vocabulary word in a passage.
What are context clues?
300
This is the BIG statement of a passage, not just small details. It must cover the entire passage.
What is the main idea?
300
Autobiographies and biographies are included in this category of non-fiction.
What is literary non-fiction?
300
Poetry that does not rhyme.
What is free verse?
300
These are the words that tell what the characters should be doing as they say their lines.
What are stage directions?
400
Good readers develop these by using clues from the text and their schema or background knowledge.
What is inferencing?
400
All stories are written with this in mind including rising action, climax and falling action.
What is a plot?
400
The author's purpose of an advertisement about the best features of an ipad that includes words like you should and best.
What is to persuade?
400
"John is a pig when he eats" is what type of figurative language?
What is metaphor?
400
True or false. A play has a plot.
What is true?
500
What are three of the four different types of author's purpose?
What are persuade, inform, entertain, and express?
500
Authors sometimes includes this hidden message or lesson in their stories.
What is theme or moral?
500
A newspaper article or editorial is what type of nonfiction text?
What is informational text?
500
This type of writing found in poetry creates images by using these. They are usually written with the words like or as.
What is simile?
500
Instead of paragraphs, a play is divided into ________ and ____________?
What are acts and scenes?