Literary Elements
This is the person, animal, or being who takes part in a story.
What is a character?
This is a brief retelling of the most important events or ideas in a text.
What is a summary?
“Her eyes sparkled like stars.”
What literary device is being used?
What is a simile?
What should every complete sentence express?
What is a complete thought?
What does CER stand for?
What is Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning?
This tells where and when a story takes place.
What is setting?
When you use clues from the text and what you already know to figure something out, you are making this.
What is an inference?
“The classroom was a zoo.”
What literary device is being used?
What is a metaphor?
What is wrong with this sentence?
“Because I was tired.”
What is a sentence fragment?
This part of CER answers the question: “What do I think or believe?”
What is claim?
This is the problem or struggle that a character faces.
What is conflict?
A character keeps checking the clock, looking nervous, and avoiding eye contact. You conclude that the character is worried. What reading skill are you using?
What is making an inference?
“The wind whispered through the trees.”
What literary device is being used?
What is personification?
What is wrong with this sentence?
“I finished my homework I watched TV.”
What is a run-on sentence?
This part of CER uses information from the text to support your claim.
What is Evidence?
A character is trying to decide whether to tell the truth or lie. What type of conflict is this?
What is internal conflict?
What is Character vs. Self?
A story is mostly about a student who struggles to make friends at a new school but eventually finds someone who accepts them. What would you identify to explain the lesson or message of the story?
What is the theme?
“I have told you a million times to clean your room!”
What literary device is being used?
What is hyperbole?
Which sentence is correctly written?
A. my friend and I went to the mall.
B. My friend and I went to the mall.
C. My friend and i went to the mall
D. my friend and i went to the mall
What is B?
This part of CER explains how your evidence supports your claim.
What is Reasoning?
Put these plot elements in the correct order: climax, exposition, resolution, rising action, falling action.
What is Exposition → Rising Action → Climax → Falling Action → Resolution?
What is the difference between a topic and a theme?
A topic is a subject or idea, while a theme is the message or lesson the author communicates about that topic.
Example:
Topic → Friendship
Theme → True friends support each other during difficult times.
An author describes a setting using details about what the character can see, hear, smell, taste, and feel. What literary technique is the author using?
What is imagery?
Combine these two sentences into one compound sentence:
“The character was nervous. She gave the speech anyway.”
What is "The character was nervous, but she gave the speech anyway"?
A student writes: “The character is brave because she enters the burning building to save her friend.”
What part of CER is missing?
What is Reasoning?