Parts of Speech 1
A word that names a person, place, thing or idea
What is a noun?
A word or group of words that describes an action, experience.
What is a verb?
The central idea of a story.
What is theme?
A person in a play, story, novel, etc.
What is a character?
The time, place, and circumstances in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
A word that tells how often, how, when, where. It can describe a verb or adjective.
What is an adverb?
A word that describes an animal, person, thing, or thought.
What is an adjective?
The position of the narrator in relation to the story, as indicated by the narrator's outlook.
What is the point of view?
Figurative language in which human characteristics are given to animals, ideas, or objects.
What is personification?
The use of language to create vivid sensory impressions in the imagination.
What is imagery?
A word that replaces the name of a person, place, thing or idea in a sentence.
What is a pronoun?
A word that joins words or groups of words in a sentence.
What is a conjunction?
The plan of events or main story in a narrative or drama.
What is a plot?
The psychological or social factors that drive the actions of a character.
What is motivation?
The highest or most intense point in the development of a story; the turning point of the action in the story.
What is climax?
A word that expresses strong emotion and is often followed by an exclamation point.
What is a interjection
A word that combines with a noun or pronoun to form a phrase that tells something about another word in a sentence. Can show place, time, or direction in a sentence.
What is a preposition?
Events in the story that build toward the point of greatest interest.
What is the rising action?
The main character in a novel, play, story, or poem.
What is a protagonist?
A person who opposes, fights, or competes with another.
What is an antagonist?