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?
A list of chapters or pages given at the beginning of a text.
What is the table of contents.
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 persuasive writing?
A line in a poem is called.
What is stanza.
A passage that is explained in order of when the events happened uses this text structure.
What is sequence?
This word 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 or nonfiction writing?
This is the part of the story when the suspense peaks and the problem is solved.
What is the turning point or climax?
The first thing you do when you get your passages.
What is a close read?
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 leaves waved in the wind," is an example of.
What is personification?
"The girl played ball," is an example of what kind of clause?
What is an independent clause?
This is the deeper meaning or the insight the story teaches about life. *Life lesson
What is theme?
The paragraph that usually reemphasizes and summarizes the main idea in an informational passage.
What is the last paragraph or conclusion.
When this is added to the end of a root word, it makes a new word and changes the meaning of the word.
What is a suffix?
A word or phrase that has a deeper meaning than the literal meaning of the words or phrase.
What is figurative language?
"Because she broke her arm" is an example of what kind of clause?
What is a dependent clause?