Story Elements
Fact & Opinion
Reading Terms
Vocabulary
Synonyms and Antonyms
100
A person or animal in the story, play , or literary work.
What is a character?
100
Reading is hard.
What is OPINION?
100
A story that is true and factual.
What is non-fiction?
100
Appears at the end of a book and includes terms within that book that
What is glossary?
100
A word that means the same or has a similar meaning
What is a synonym?
200
Events that occur in the story
What is plot?
200
My mom's garden has red, pink, and white roses.
What is FACT?
200
The goalkeeper was a rock!
What is a metaphor?
200
The cat dashed out of sight and I was unable to catch it.: Dashed means - jumped - ran quickly - fell - attacked
What is ran quickly?
200
Words that have opposite meanings
What are antonyms?
300
The castle sat in a moat surrounded by murky water. This sentence depicts the ___________ of the story.
What is setting?
300
Abraham Lincoln was the best president of the United States of America. What word makes this statement an opinion?
What is BEST?
300
A story that is not true or made up.
What is fiction?
300
Hints that an author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word.
What are context clues?
300
A book that lists words in groups of synonyms and related concepts
What is a thesaurus?
400
This story element can be either internal, external or both
What is CONFLICT?
400
Mesquite Texas is a city in Texas. It's population is over 20,000 people.
What is FACT?
400
He was as COOL as a fan.
What is a simile?
400
Grass:Green::Sky:
What is blue?
400
A thesaurus is different from a dictionary because it doesn't have these.
What are definitions?
500
Overall emotion created by the work of literature
What is MOOD?
500
A fact is something that can be ________________
What is PROVEN?
500
Venn Diagrams, T-Charts, Semantic Maps are all types of
What are graphic organizers?
500
What resource do you use to help you define words that you do not know?
What is dictionary?
500
salt : pepper :: sun :_________
What is moon?
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