Parts of Speech
This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
The problem in a story that the main character tries to solve.
What is the conflict?
A hooded garment worn by monks.
What is a cowl?
A list of events that happen in a story.
What are plot points?
This is a group of lines in a poem, often separated by a space, similar to a paragraph in a story.
What is a stanza?
Words like a, an, or the are called this.
What are articles?
A story has a clear beginning, middle, and end. – Give an example from a story.
Class will agree on response.
To decorate with garland.
What is festoon?
This tells the reader who is telling the story; it can be from “I” or “we” in the story, or “he,” “she,” or “they.”
What is Point of View?
This is the pattern of rhyming words at the ends of lines in a poem, often labeled with letters like ABAB or AABB.
What is rhyme scheme?
This pronoun names a group of people including yourself.
What is WE?
A setting is WHERE a story happens. Describe the setting of Charlotte's Web using 3 or more adjectives.
Class will agree on response.
An absolute ruler; usually wields power oppresively.
What is a tyrant?
This is the character you are rooting for in a story, often the “good guy” who tries to solve the problem.
What is a hero?
A ______ pronoun is used when we aren't sure who or what we're talking about. Put that kind of pronoun in this sentence: I don't know ______ who likes the color green.
What is an indefinite pronoun?
What is ANYBODY or ANYONE?
Words that describe nouns, like bright or gigantic, are called this.
What is an adjective?
This is a person, animal, or being in a story, poem, or play that takes part in the action.
What is a character?
Spending resources sparingly and wisely; thrifty.
What is frugal?
These are the words that characters say out loud in a story, usually shown with quotation marks.
What is dialogue?
List 4 events or plot points, in order, from the Rapunzel story.
Classmates will agree on response.
This kind of word takes the place of a noun, like he, she, it, or they.
What is a pronoun?
A villian, as we described, is a character people like to dislike. This villainous queen shouts “Off with their heads!” in a famous Wonderland story.
Who is the Queen of Hearts?
To argue; to protest; to oppose.
What is dispute?
Creative writing makes stories more interesting to read. Please add some creativity to this micro story: The ice cream cone was melting.
Classmates will agree on response.
Recite Matthew 5:1-3
Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him.
And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.