Narrative Elements
Where or when a story takes place?
What is the setting?
This is what the author is trying to say about the topic of a passage.
What is the main idea?
A cake is brought in with candles. The room is filled with balloons.
What is a birthday party?
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
Harry Potter is my favorite book series.
What is opinion?
The lesson or message of a story.
What is theme?
The strategy that helps a reader find the topic and main idea of a nonfiction text.
What is a What/So What? chart?
The crowd was silent. As soon as the ball went into the hoop, the crowd erupted in cheers.
What is a basketball team won the game?
Giving human characteristics to a non-human object
What is personification?
Hatchet has sold more than one million copies.
What is fact?
The way in which an author reveals information about the characters.
What is characterization?
The strategy that helps a reader summarize a fiction story.
What is Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then?
She fussed at her kids to stay out of the kitchen. There were pieces of glass everywhere.
What is a glass was dropped?
An extreme exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
Seven out of ten people prefer to watch soccer over basketball in Europe.
What is a fact?
Individual vs. self, individual vs. nature, and individual vs. individual are examples of this narrative element.
What is conflict?
This type of information explains or tells more about the main idea.
What are supporting details?
He couldn't stand it anymore. He couldn't drown out the noise. He went and signed her up for private lessons.
What is she isn't playing/singing well?
She sells seashells down by the seashore
What is alliteration?
Anime is more enjoyable to watch than sports.
What is opinion?
The main events in a story.
What is the plot?
The title, subheadings, and pictures are examples of this in a nonfiction text.
What are text features?
He slumped down in his chair as he looked at the test paper his teacher just handed back to him.
What is the student did not do well on a test?
"A promise made is a debt unpaid"
What is a metaphor?
Fables and folktales teach lessons that the main characters learn by the end of the story.
What is a fact?