Poetry
Drama
Graphics
Informational Text Features
Genres
100

In poetry a sentence is called ____________.

What is a line? 

100

The person who wrote a drama.

What is a playwright?

100

Drawings or other pictures that provide reinforcement for the words in a text. 

What is photograph or illustration? 

100

Signals that words are important.

What is bold print?

100

 A story with made up characters and situations that can really happen in real life.

What is realistic fiction? 

200

A pattern that appeals to the ears. It can serve as aid to remembering a poem.

What is repetition? 

200

The instructions of a drama usually written in parentheses.

What are stage directions?

200

Illustration with labels that describes something or shows how it works?

What is a diagram? 

200

List key points or information in a brief organized way.

What are bullets of information?

200

An essay that one writes that is usually in first person and tells a story that happened in their life. 

What is a personal narrative? 

300
The writer's attitude towards a subject of a poem. 

What is tone? 

300

The divisions of a play. 

What are scenes?

300

Representation of events in chronoglogical order.

What is a timeline? 

300

Describes or explains a picture or photograph to help the reader understand what they are looking at?

What are captions?

300

A spoken expression of ideas and opinions that is made by someone who is speaking in front of a group of people. 

What is a speech? 

400

The general feeling that a poem creates within the reader. 

What is mood? 

400

The problem in the drama? 

What is conflict? 

400

An explanatory list of symbols or colors on a graphic.

What is a key or a legend. 

400

Identifies different topics in the text and makes it easier for the reader to navigate through the text.

What are headings and subheadings?

400

A form of written where an author writes about someone else? 

What is a biography? 

500

In poetry a group of lines is called a _________.

What is a stanza?

500

The sequence of events in a drama. 

What is plot? 

500

An arrangement of information in colums or rows.

What is a table? 

500

Helps the reader locate different categories in the text or names what the text will be about? 

What are titles? 

500

A form of nonfiction in which an author recounts a specific experience from his or her life. 

What is a memoir?