Narrative Elements
Figurative Language
Poetry
Affixes
Story Terms
100

These are the people, animals, or things in the story.

What are characters?

100

This is a comparison using like or as.

What is a simile?

100

This is a row of words in a poem.

What is a line?

100

This is a simple word that suffixes and prefixes can be added to.

What is a root word?

100

This is what the passage or paragraph is mostly about?

What is main idea?

200

Where and when the story takes place.

What is the setting?

200

This is a comparison but does not use like or as.

What is a metaphor?

200

This is a single line in poetry.

What is a verse?

200

These are letters added to the beginning of a root word.

What is a prefix?

200

These are important information that supports the main idea.

What are details?

300

This is the events in the story.

What is the plot?

300

The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe.

What is onomatopoeia?

300

This a group of lines in poetry; kinda like a paragraph.

What is a stanza?

300

These are letters added to the end of the root word.

What is a suffix?

300

This is when the story is told from a character's point of view; uses words like I, me, my and we.

What is first person point of view?

400

This is how the story is solved.

What is the resolution?

400

This is the repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words.

What is alliteration?

400

Most poems do this; or common ending sound.

What is a rhyme?

400

Do the prefixes and suffixes change the meaning of the root word?

What is yes?

400
This is when the story is told by someone outside the story; use words like he, she, they and them.

What is third person point of view?

500

This the turning point in the story; problems stop getting bigger.

What is the climax?

500
This is a word or phrase that is not taken literally.

What is an idiom?


500

This is a pattern of rhymes marked by letters.

Example:  AABBC  AABBC

What is rhyme scheme?

500

Tell me the meaning of the following word:   unfriendly

What is not in a friendly way?

500

This the lesson that is learned.

What is the theme?

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