Literary Terms Quiz

Nonfiction

• Made up

• Tells about real-life people, places and ideas

• a spooky story

• a story told in drawings

Main Idea

• Supports what the passage is about

• the moral of the story

• 5 W's of a passage & the most important information

• the series of events in a fictional story

Detail

• What the passage is mainly about

• The way the author organizes the text

• An educated guess based on information in a passage and your prior knowledge

• The bits and pieces of information that support the main idea

Summary

• A shortened version of the text that focuses on the main idea

• The problem within the story

• the moral of the story

• the perspective the story is written in

Author's Purpose

• Visuals that support the text

• Description

• The author's reason for writing

• Summary of the story

Author's claim

• A statement of the author's point of view

• An educated guess based on information in a passage and your prior knowledge

• When a character in a fictional story is speaking

• A sentence or two at the end of the first paragraph that states the author's claim or position on the topic.

Inference/Infer

• A personal belief or judgement that cannot be proven

• When a phrase is repeated

• The 5 W's

• An educated guess based on information in a passage and your prior knowledge

Text Structure

• The way the author organizes the text

• Visuals that aid the text of a passage

• The print under a photograph

• The author's reason for writing

Cause/ Effect

• The text emphasizes how actions or events cause others to take place

• Showing the similarities and differences between two things

• A statement that can be proven

• Something used to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word

Compare/Contrast

• The text shows a problem and explains how to fix it

• The text is showing series of an event

• The text shows similarities and differences between two things

• A personal belief that cannot be proven