Openings
Grammar and Usage
Academic Vocabulary
Literary Terms
A little bit of everything
100
A compelling idea or statement designed to get the readers attention.
What is a hook?
100
When a character in a story speaks, usually surronded by quotation marks.
What is dialogue?
100
a stor about an incident.
What is a narrative?
100
The result of an event or action.
What is an effect?
100
The order in which things happen.
What is sequence of events?
200
A short sketch or account of a biographical incident.
What is an anecdote?
200
A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
200
The ability to use language clearly and easily.
What is fluency?
200
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close together.
What is alliteration?
200
The time and place in which an event occurs.
What is the setting?
300
A line of dialogue or a famous quotation that points to the idea of the narrative.
What is a quote?
300
The part of speech that expresses existence, action, or occurrence.
What is a verb?
300
The vantge point from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
300
The pattern of rhyming lines in a poem or song.
What is a rhyme scheme?
300
Words or phrases that help the reader follow your story by smoothly connecting ideas, details, or events.
What are transitions?
400
A statement designed to capture the reader's interest and compel him or her to read more.
What is a statement of intrigue?
400
Provide a very specific depiction of an action.
What is a vivid verb?
400
The act of creating characters.
What is characterization?
400
An autobiographical and tells about meaningful moments or events in one's life.
What is a personal narrative?
400
When the teller is a person in the story and the word "I" is used by the narrator.
What is first-person point of view?
500
Anecdote, Question, Quote, Statement of Intrigue
What is AQQS?
500
Those that name things that can be counted.
What are count nouns?
500
An event that makes something else happen.
What is a cause?
500
A struggle between opposing forces.
What is conflict?
500
Details that apply to the readers five senses.
What are sensory details?
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