Plot Elements
The part of the story where the main character faces their biggest challenge or conflict.
What is the climax?
This part of speech is a person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
This type of figurative language compares two different things using "like" or "as"
This is the time and place where a story happens.
What is setting?
If an author writes a book to teach readers about space exploration, their purpose is likely to do this.
What is to inform?
This is the part of the story where the problem is introduced. The reader meets the characters and the setting.
What is the exposition?
This part of speech describes an action or state of being.
What is a verb?
This figure of speech gives human qualities to animals or objects.
What is personification?
This is the main character in a story who faces the primary conflict. The "good" guy.
What is the protagonist?
The antonym (opposite) of brave:
What is coward/cowardly?
The events that follow the climax and lead to the resolution.
What is the falling action?
This part of speech modifies or describes a noun. Offers more detail.
What is an adjective?
This type of figurative language involves a comparison between two unlike things by saying one is the other.
What is a metaphor?
This is the overall message or lesson that the author wants to convey through the story.
What is the theme?
This type of punctuation is used in an exclamatory sentence. It displays strong emotion.
What is an exclamation point?
The part of the plot where the conflict begins to be resolved. The story winds down.
What is the resolution?
This part of speech connects words, phrases, or clauses within a sentence.
What is a conjunction?
When words that are close together in a sentence have the same beginning sound, this is called this.
What is alliteration?
This is the person who is opposed to the main character/ competes with the main character
What is the antagonist?
Stories written in this genre often include supernatural elements or magical worlds.
What is fantasy?
The struggle between two opposing forces. It can be internal or external.
What is the conflict?
This part of speech takes place of a noun in a sentence. Some examples are: he, she, or they.
What is a prounoun?
This term describes words that imitate the sound they represent, such as "buzz" or "clang."
What is onomatopoeia?
This is the narrator's position in relation to the story, such as first-person, second-person, or third-person.
What is point-of-view?
In the sentence “She was ecstatic when she found out she had won the contest,” the word "ecstatic" means this.
What is happy/very happy?