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Identify the Text Type
Elements of an Argument
Elements of a Drama
Narratives and Informational Texts
Poetic Texts and Figurative Language
100
This text type is organized chronologically by the events
What is a narrative?
100
This is a statement of the author's belief or opinion.
What is a claim?
100
These people perform the roles of the characters.
What are actors/actresses?
100
When annotating a narrative text you should make notes about these.
What are plot elements or events?
100
This is a group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
200
This text type is organized into central ideas and the details that support them.
What is an informational text?
200
This explains WHY the author of an argument believes their claim to be true.
What is reasoning?
200
These are smaller movable objects used by the actors to make a scene come to life.
What are props?
200
When annotating an informational text, you should make notes about these.
What are central ideas?
200
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
300
This text type is organized into lines and stanzas and often has a song-like rhythm.
What is poetic?
300
This form of evidence is the strongest.
What is a fact?
300
These are the instructions meant to be performed by the actors and can be found in brackets.
What are stage directions?
300
This is the problem or struggle in a story.
What is the conflict?
300
"The road twisted dancing around the mountainside" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is personification?
400
This type of text is organized into claims that are supported by reasoning and evidence.
What is argumentative?
400
This word describes an argument that is not supported with reasoning and evidence.
What is invalid?
400
This is the purpose of a drama.
What is to entertain?
400
This is the process of building a character.
What is characterization?
400
"She laughed so hard a waterfall of milk spewed from her nose" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is hyperbole?
500
This is a narrative written to be performed or acted out for an audience.
What is a drama?
500
This is the strongest part of an argument.
What is the evidence?
500
This is the Sci-fi teleplay that we read in class.
What is The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street?
500
This is the overall subject of an informational text.
What is the topic?
500
This is an example of a sound device.
What is rhythm, rhyme, repetition, or onomatopoeia?