front 1 structural elements | back 1 elements that make up the structure of a poem, play, or story |
front 2 dialogue | back 2 words characters speak in a story or a play |
front 3 theme | back 3 lesson learned in a story, play or poem (usually by the main character) |
front 4 1st person point of view | back 4 character in the story tells his/her version of the story. the narrator is part of the story |
front 5 3rd person point of view | back 5 the narrator is outside the story |
front 6 setting | back 6 where and when the story or play takes place. It often inculeds time, place, and environment |
front 7 infer | back 7 to make an inference by using your prior knowledge and clues in the story to figure out something about the story |
front 8 narrative writing | back 8 tells a story and includes the elements of a story such as setting, characters, and plot |
front 9 mythology | back 9 a collection of stories or myths passed down in any group with shared beliefs |
front 10 sequence | back 10 order of events |
front 11 main idea | back 11 what the text is mostly about |
front 12 timeline | back 12 text feature that shows events in the order they occorred |
front 13 text structure | back 13 how a text is organized |
front 14 diagram | back 14 an image that shows the parts of something |
front 15 cause and effect | back 15 what happened and why |
front 16 heading | back 16 indicates a new broad section is being introduced |
front 17 description | back 17 lots of details used to "paint a picture" |
front 18 chart | back 18 a visual text feautre that uses bars, lines, or slices to show data |
front 19 compare/contrast | back 19 what is similar and what is different |
front 20 text features | back 20 visurals in a text that provide additional information to what you read |
front 21 problem/solution | back 21 a problem is presented and ways to solve the problem |
front 22 second hand account | back 22 a retelling of an event by a person who was not there to witness it |
front 23 first hand account | back 23 a retelling of an event by a person who witnessed it |