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WorksheetsNonfiction and Literary Terms
Total questions: 37
Worksheet time: 19mins
When the author presents ideas, events or facts as a cause, and what happens as a result. This is called:
Cause and Effect
Dialogue
Conflict
Climax
When the author provides information about the similarities and differences between two or more people, events, ideas, objects. This is called:
Alliteration
Compare and contrast
Imagery
Plot
A caption is:
A chart
The main idea
The title of the article
A label or brief explanation that accompanies a photograph or illustration.
The headline is:
The title of an article in a newspaper or magazine. It is generally in larger type than the rest of the text on the page.
A summary of the article
A rewording or rephrasing of something written or spoken by someone else.
A short article placed alongside a longer article.
The central idea, or main idea, is:
A detail in the paragraph.
A main point that the author is making.
Not important at all.
A summary not influenced by opinions or feelings.
A short article placed alongside a longer article and containing additional information or contrasting information. This is called a:
Main idea
Caption
Antagonist
Sidebar
To Paraphrase something means to:
Type out the written portion.
Reword or rephrase something written or spoken by someone else. Putting it in your own words.
Give evidence
Give a direct quote with quotation marks.
A Direct Quotation is:
A report of the exact words of an author or speaker. This also is surrounded by quotation marks.
A rewrite of something someone said.
Words that sound alike but are spelled different.
A group of words that begin with the same sound.
A short paragraph summary that tells what an article is about and does not include your opinions is called:
Supporting Evidence
Sequence
Text Features
An Objective Summary
Type of text structure where the author lists items or events in chronological order:
Description
Problem and solution
Sequence
Compare and contrast
Type of text structure where the author gives a description to give the reader a mental picture:
Description
Sequence
Problem and Solution
Cause and Effect
Type of text structure where the author presents a problem and explains one or more solutions to the problem.
Compare and Contrast
Description
Sequence
Problem and Solution
This is something from an article, magazine, textbook, or web page beyond the main article or story that help the reader better understand what you are reading.
Text Features
Text Evidence
Subheading
Description
What is a Subheading?
A sandwich
A title the comes before the headline.
A title that comes after the headline and is usually in smaller print.
A printed paper
Supporting evidence is:
Information that refutes an argument
Information used to support an argument
Information that is unimportant
Information that is written down
Text evidence is :
Supporting evidence that comes from the text you are writing about
The heading of an article
Description
Evidence that comes from your head
"Anne's awesome apple" is an example of what?
Onomatopoeia
Climax
Alliteration
Mood
The Antagonist is:
The good guy
The enemy or bad guy
The Protagonist is:
The good guy
The bad guy
The most exciting part in a play, novel, or short story is
The falling action
The climax
The rising action
The plot
The conflict is:
The struggle between opposing forces
The hugging part
The way the characters get along
The relationship
The conversation between characters in a work of literature is called:
Climax
Plot
Setting
Dialogue
"I've been taking this test for a million years!" is an example of what?
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Mood
A scene in a story that occurred before the present time in the story is called:
Foreshadowing
Sequence
Mood
A flashback
Clues or hints about something that is going to happen later in the story. Authors use this to build suspense.
Figurative Language
Foreshadow
Hyperbole
Idiom
"It's raining cats and dogs!" or "When pigs fly!" are examples of what?
Foreshadow
Irony
Idiom
Imagery
Language that portrays sensory experiences. This is language that uses the five senses: taste, touch, smell, sight.
Imagery
Irony
Idiom
Mood
This is type of Irony where the reader is aware of something that the characters are not aware of.
Dramatic Irony
Situational Irony
Verbal Irony
Type of Irony where something happens that is the reverse of what you expected.
Situational Irony
Dramatic Irony
Verbal Irony
Type of Irony when the name or description of something implies the opposite of the truth. (Calling a really big person "Tiny")
Verbal Irony
Dramatic Irony
Situational Irony
A metaphor is:
A character that does not play a major role in the story
The comparison of two unlike things without using like or as
The feeling the reader gets from a work of literature
The comparison of two unlike things using like or as
The mood is:
The feeling the reader gets from a work of literature
Words like "boom", "bang", "buzz"
Describing nonhuman things as thought they have human qualities
The sequence of events
Personification is
The Climax
An important detail in topic sentence
The main or central idea in the story
Describing nonhuman things as thought they have human qualities
A story's main message or moral is:
Mood
Theme
Transitional Words
Simile
The point of view is:
The good guy
A character who does not undergo a significant change over the course of a story
The perspective from which a story is told
The bad guy
The environment where the story takes place is called :
Foreshadowing
The Mood
The Setting
Symbol
An object, setting, event, animal, or person that has another meaning is:
Plot
Symbol
Climax
Sidebar
