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Fiction
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Poetry
This and That
100
The process of underlining text and taking notes in the margin.
What is "marking the text? Or What is creating a road map?
100
The time and place where a story takes place.
What is the setting?
100
A short explanation under a photograph.
What is a caption?
100
Compares two things, using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
The deeper, underlying message in a text. (What the story really, really means).
What is theme?
200
The first step in the process for reading passages.
What is "identify the genre?"
200
Something that makes a character do what they do.
What is motivation?
200
The way we have practiced organizing main ideas and supporting details.
What is boxes and bullets?
200
This is an example: The sun beam whispered a secret in my ear.
What is personification?
200
A tendency in a character that usually remains the same over time.
What is character trait?
300
What you should do first: Read and mark up the text or Read and mark up the questions
What is read and mark up the questions?
300
The reason a person writes something.
What is author's purpose?
300
The two places we can often find the main idea in a paragraph.
What is the first or last sentence?
300
What is an example of alliteration?
What is________________________________.
300
A genre that includes a setting in the past that is real, but some of the characters and events are made up.
What is historical fiction?
400
We use this to get rid of answers that we know are wrong.
What is the process of elimination?
400
The lense, or view of a certain character.
What is perspective?
400
This is found in the back of a book and tells us on what page to locate infromation.
What is the index?
400
Fiction is written in paragraphs. Poems are written in chunks of text known as these.
What are stanzas?
400
A genre where the author tells us the true story of his/her life.
What is autobiography?
500
These important words tell us about the order of steps or events. We should always mark them when we see them in a test question.
What are sequence words? Or what are chronological words.
500
The person who tells the story is also known by this term.
What is narrator?
500
The academic "fancy" word for non-fiction.
What is expository text?
500
Authors use lots of this type of language in poetry. It helps to create a picture in the reader's mind.
What is imagery or figurative language? Or what is imagery?
500
How a non-fiction text is organized.
What is text structure?