Fiction
Poetry
Drama
Expository-Non-Fiction
Surprise me
100
The people in the story
What is characters?
100
the lesson the author wants you to learn from the story
What is theme?
100
directions in a play that tell the actors how to move or speak
What are stage directions?
100
Something that can be proven.
What are facts?
100
The attitude or sound of a piece of writing.
What is tone?
200
time and place of a story
What is setting?
200
The narrator of a poem. The person speaking.
What is speaker?
200
the author of a play
What is a playwright?
200
The way a piece of writing is organized.
What are text features or organizational patterns?
200
The giving of human qualities to an object that is not human.
What is personification?
300
the problem or problems the character must solve
What is conflict?
300
what the poem is about
What is subject?
300
a conversation between two characters in the story
What is dialogue?
300
What the passage is mostly about
What is main idea?
300
How the problem in a story is solved?
What is resolution?
400
the perspective from which the story is told
What is point of view?
400
Language that appeals to the five senses
What is sensory language?
400
a written form of the play
What is script?
400
A title within the main title
What is a subtitle?
400
narrator is telling the story and is part of the story. Uses I, me, us, we, my
What is 1st person point of view?
500
This is the part where things change for the main character.
What is turning point?
500
the time and place of a play
What is scene?
500
A story written to be performed on a stage and in front of an audience.
What is drama?
500
Cannot be proven. Based on beliefs, feelings, or thoughts.
What is an opinion?
500
A narrator is telling the story, but is not part of the story. Uses he, she, they,
What is third person point of view?
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