figurative language
Giving a nonhuman human characteristics
What is personification?
What is a noun?
where and when an event takes place in a short story
What is setting
It is what the passage or paragraph is about.
What is the main idea?
a direct comparison of two different things
What is metaphor
What is an adjective?
Describes a noun
the most intense or exciting high point of a short story
What is climax
The reason why an author writes.
What is Author's Purpose?
Where is the adjective in the sentence?
The flowers are turning purple and yellow.
Purple and Yellow
the main events of a short story
What is plot
Where are the nouns in the following sentence?
The apple turned brown because it was sitting on the desk all day.
Apple and Desk
Where is the verb in the sentence?
Alex is running to the store before it closes.
the lesson or moral of a story
What is theme
The feeling the author wants the reader to get.
What is mood?
What is the compound subject in the sentence?
Corey and Jamal are going to basketball practice later this evening.
Corey and Jamal
the perspective from which the story's told
What is point of view
The vocabulary an author uses to show how he or she feels about a topic.
What is tone?