Literary Texts
The location and time in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
A list of words and definitions.
What is the glossary?
A word that means almost the same thing.
What is a synonym?
"The tiny white flowers dotted the morning mountainside like patches of snow" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
A piece of writing that tells a story. It has characters, settings, and a plot.
What is a narrative?
This is when a character is talking.
What is dialogue?
What phrase means, what the text is mostly about? This is in informational texts
What is the main idea?
A word that means the opposite.
What is an antonym?
"The stars were candles guiding the weary travelers" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
This type of writing convinces the reader to do something or to agree with something.
What is opinion writing?
This is the list of people in a play.
What is the cast of characters?
A passage that is explained in order of when the events happened uses this text structure.
What is chronological text structure?
This phrase means central idea?
What is a main idea?
"This cat weights a ton" is an example of this.
What is a hyperbole?
This type of writing provides facts and explains something.
What is informational writing?
This is the part of the story when the suspense peaks in the plot
What is the climax?
The features that help you understand informational texts
What is text features? (captions, graphs, title, heading, bold words)
When this is added to the beginning of a root word, it makes a new word and changes the meaning of the word.
What is a prefix?
"The water danced across my toes" is an example of what?
What is personification?
The strategy that is used for the introduction in opinion and informational essays.
What is the HIT strategy?
This is the deeper meaning or the insight the story teaches about life. *Life lesson or moral*
What is theme?
The paragraph that usually reemphasizes and summarizes the main idea in an informational passage.
What is the last paragraph or conclusion
What strategy do you use for finding unknown words in a passage?
What is replace the word with the answer choices
It is raining cats and dogs is an example of this.
What is an idiom?
When a sentence does not have proper punctuation and goes on for too long.
What is a run-on sentence?