Vocabulary
This word means "very large".
What is enormous/huge/giant?
A comparison using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
The part of speech that names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
This part of speech describes an action or state of being.
What is a verb?
The person who writes a story.
What is an author?
What is modern/recent?
The main character in a story.
What is a protagonist?
The verb in this sentence: “The dog sprinted across the yard.”
What is sprinted?
This part of speech describes an action or state of being.
What is an adjective?
The time and place in which a story occurs.
What is setting?
Someone who is reluctant is this.
What is unwilling/hesitant?
A comparison that says one thing is another.
What is a metaphor?
The adjective in: “The enormous elephant walked slowly.”
What is enormous?
This part of speech describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb, such as quickly in “she ran quickly.”
What is an adverb?
The sequence of events in a story.
What is plot?
To contradict someone is to do this.
What is disagree with or challenge?
The struggle between opposing forces in a story.
What is a conflict?
Identify the conjunction: “I wanted pizza, but my brother wanted tacos.”
What is but?
This part of speech takes the place of a noun, such as he, she, they, or it.
What is a pronoun?
The message or lesson a story communicates?
What is theme?
This word describes something that is unclear or open to multiple interpretations.
What is ambiguous?
A hint about something that will happen later in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
Identify the independent clause: “Although it was raining, we went outside.”
What is “we went outside”?
In the sentence “Wow! That was an incredible game!” this part of speech is “Wow!”
What is an interjection?
The perspective from which a story is told when the narrator uses “I” and is a character in the story.
What is first-person point of view?