Literary Text
The location and time in which a story takes place.
What is setting?
A list of words and definitions.
What is a 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 similes?
A piece of writing that tells a story. It has characters, setting, and a plot.
What is a narrative?
This is when a character is talking.
What is dialogue?
This text structure tells how things are the same and how they are different.
What is compare and contrast?
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 gives reasons and evidence.
What is opinion writing?
This is the list of people in a story, play, or poem.
What is cast or characters?
A passage that is explained in order of events.
What is sequence or chronological order?
This word means central idea.
What is main idea?
"This cat weighs a ton" is an example of this.
What is a hyperbole?
This type of writing provides facts and explanations of something.
What is informational or non fiction writing?
What poems are written in.
What is stanza?
The words under a photograph are called.
What is a caption?
When 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 sun kissed my cheek is an example of this.
What is personification?
next, then, finally, after that are examples of..
What is transition words?
This is the deeper meaning or the insight the story teaches about. 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 a conclusion?
Words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings.
What are homophones?
It is raining cats and dogs is an example of this.
What is idiom?
This means, this makes me think, this is important because..
What is elaboration?