Story Elements
The time and place of a story.
What is the setting?
The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words in a sentence.
What is alliteration?
An action word.
What is a verb?
dis, mis, un, uni, tri, sub, semi, re, pre, non, multi are examples of this.
What is a prefix?
What the story or paragraph is mostly about.
People and animals in a story.
What are characters?
An excessive exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
What are a, an, and the?
The base word without prefixes or suffixes is also called this.
What is root word?
Take what you read in the text and add your background knowledge.
What is an inference?
The events and conflict that occur in a story.
What is the plot?
The most basic form of figurative language- a phrase you cannot take literally.
What is an idiom?
Describes or modifies a noun.
able, ant, ly, ment, ed, er, tion are all examples of what?
What is a suffix?
What is explicit evidence?
What is conflict/climax?
The comparison of one thing to another that does NOT use "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
A word that takes the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
Books, ducks, toys, peaches, women, oxen: all are examples of this.
What is a plural noun?
Each body paragraph in a TDA should have these three things.
What is EIA, or Explicit, Implicit, and Analysis?
The message of the story/what the author wants us to learn.
What is theme?
Giving non-living things (animals, objects, ideas), human-like qualities.
What is personification?
A word that describes or modifies a verb.
What is an adverb?
Young-old, loud-quiet, small-big, tall-short, few-many: these are all examples of what.
What is a subject and predicate?