Fiction
The heart and problem of the story.
What is the conflict?
Who and what the speaker is describing and explaining?
What is the literal meaning of the poem? (+100 points)!
The way the author organizes their ideas
What are organizational patterns? (+400 points)!
The way we summarize nonfiction text.
What is who, what, when, where, and why the text is written? (+400 points)!
The most important part of the story, when the conflict becomes known to the reader shocks you as the reader!
What is the climax?
You do this immediately after reading the poem to best understand the literal meaning of the text.
What is define unfamiliar words? (Triple Points)!
Each individual paragraph is mainly/mostly about.
What is the key idea? (+100 points)
The way we summarize a fictional text.
What is, "somebody, wanted, but, so, then..." strategy? (+300 points)!
When and where the story takes place, and it is always connected to the conflict of the story.
What is the setting? (Double Points)!
The teachable lesson and message about life.
What is the theme? (+200 points)!
The reason the author writes the text.
What is the author's purpose? (+200 points)!
Keyword to remember, suspense.
What is the interesting build-up/rising action of a story? (+200 points)!
The events of the story that lead up and triggers the climax.
What is the rising action?
The attitude of the poem, when the author communicates feelings and emotions to the reader.
What are tone and mood?
Who or what the entire text is mainly or mostly about.
What is the controlling idea? (+300 points!)
Keyword to remember, foreshadow.
What are hints that are given to the reader before it occurs, typically hinting at the climax? (+100 points)!
The way the character is described and developed in the story?
What is character development/characterization, how the character thinks, acts, feels, and speaks (Triple Points!)
List the 4 MOST COMMONLY USED Figurative Language (Including the one that appeals to your five senses).
What is: personification, simile, metaphor, and imagery? (+500 points)!
Examples, definitions, and details used to support the key idea of each paragraph or the controlling idea of the entire text.
What is supporting evidence?
Strategies you use when reading paired text.
What is compare and contrast the similarities and differences between the controlling idea/topic of each text?