REVIEW: text features and plot terms

REVIEW: text features and plot terms

Multiple Choice

1. What is the purpose of text features?

• Text features reveal or hint at the topic of the selection.

• Text features provide additional information set apart from the main text.

• Text features provide hints or clues about events that will occur later as the plot develops.

• Text features organize and call attention to important information.

Multiple Choice

2. As a reader, why should you look for and use text features?

• Text features help build suspense and anticipation within a selection.

• Text features help create a growing feeling of tension or excitement as a plot develops.

• Text features help readers see the organizational structure and purpose of an article.

• Text features help readers add structure to their own writing.

What is the Purpose of Title and Subtitle:

Title: reveals or hints at the topic of a selection

Subtitle: add a teaser or prompt to make you want to read the selection

What is the Purpose of Headings and Subheadings

• Headings: state the main idea of a new section

• Subheadings: further organize and breakdown information within a section

Multiple Select

Graphic Aids provide additional information in a visual format:

Which of these are graphic aids?

• graphs

• maps

• page numbers

• pictures

• bullet points

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of a caption?

• Captions provide a growing feeling of tension or excitement as a plot develops.

• Captions are text that clarify information in a graphic aid.

• Captions reveal or hint at the topic of the selection.

• Captions further organize and breakdown information within a section.

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of a sidebar?

• Sidebars reveal or hint at the topic of the selection.

• Sidebars provide additional information in a visual format.

• Sidebars add a teaser or a prompt to make you want to read the selection.

• Sidebars provide additional information set apart from the main text.

Fill in the Blanks

The series of events centered around the main conflict is the

Multiple Choice

People, animals, and/or imaginary creatures that take part in a story are...

• characters

• foreshadowing

Multiple Choice

Setting is the...

• Title of a story

• The time and plot of a story

• the time and conflict of a story

• the time and place of a story

Multiple Choice

Important background information about the main characters and setting can be found in the...

• exposition

• plot

• climax

• resolution

Rising Action:

the part of the plot that develops the main conflict, struggle or problem

External or Internal Conflict?

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External or Internal Conflict?

External or Internal Conflict?

Fill in the Blanks

External or Internal Conflict?

Multiple Choice

The part of the plot with the greatest interest or turning point is the...

• character

• climax

• falling action

• setting

Multiple Choice

Define suspense.

• the growing feeling of excitement or joy as a plot develops

• the growing feeling of fear or tension as a plot develops

• the growing feeling of conflict or solution as a plot develops

• the growing feeling of tension or excitement as a plot develops

Multiple Choice

Define foreshadow.

• hints or clues about events that will occur later as the climax develops

• hints or clues about events that will occur later as the plot develops