a written compostion in which two or more characters are having a conversation
What is dialouge?
100
a conclusion or opinion that is formed because of known facts or evidence
What is an inference?
100
a caption, heading, or title
What is a headline?
100
a record of a person's experiences
What is a memoir?
200
fiction dealing with actual or imagined science
What is science fiction?
200
Supporting details
What are details that support a main idea?
200
To show or indicate beforehand
What is foreshadowing?
200
news, newspaper writing
What is journalism?
200
The following are all examples of what? work like a dog, a little birdy told me, down to the wire, hold your horses, and there's a new sheriff in town
What is an idiom?
300
a biography of a person told by him or herself
What is an autobiography?
300
text that gives information or facts about a topic
What is informational text?
300
synonym for a saying such as If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning."
What is an aphorism?
300
A manual used to gain information in the field
Example: You are studying plants...You would take a ________________ with information about plants out with you to help identify and learn about plants you find.
What is a field guide?
300
a series of words in a row (or close to a row) have the same first consonant sound
Example: She sells seashells by the seashore.
What is alliteration?
400
a make believe story based on facts from the past
What is historical fiction?
400
a list of items treated in a printed work that gives each item the page number where it may be found
What is an index?
400
a style of writing, or art, which ridicules or criticizes its subject often as an attempt to bring about change (writing that pokes fun at people or things)
What is satire?
400
comments and evaluations of a book
What is a book review?
400
when an object is given human characteristics such as ---The tv doesn't like me or the ring is smiling at me
What is personification?
500
a newspaper or magazine article that gives the opinion of the writer
What is an editorial?
500
a collection words and their definitions contained in a text.
What is a glossary?
500
a collection of stories
What is an anthology?
500
words that sound like the object they name, or like the sounds that object makes. Two that immediately come to mind are "rip" and "zip