Elements of Fiction
A universal statement expressing an underlying message of a story
What is theme?
The Lin family in "The All-American Slurp" emigrated from this country
What is China?
A precise claim that answers the prompt and sets the foundation for the paragraph
What is a topic sentence?
The subject of the following sentence:
My mom bought my brother new shoes.
What is my mom?
The part of speech of the bolded word:
The students quietly began their daily bell-ringer.
What is a noun?
The part of the traditional plot structure in which the reader is introduced to background information
What is exposition?
The antagonist of "The Way of the Machete"
Who is Scipio?
Dig back into your evidence in this part of the paragraph
What is analysis?
The direct object of the following sentence:
My mom bought my brother new shoes.
What is new shoes?
The part of speech of the bolded word:
The students quietly began their daily bell-ringer.
What is a verb?
The primary opponent of the main character in a literary work
What is antagonist?
The "Recitatif" protagonist who protests school integration
Who is Roberta?
The style of citation most commonly used in English Language Arts
What is MLA (Modern Language Association)?
The indirect object of the following sentence:
My mom bought my brother new shoes.
What is my brother?
The part of speech of the bolded word:
The students quietly began their daily bell-ringer.
What is a pronoun?
This "My Mother, the Crazy African" narrator refers to her family's Nigerian guests as "accidental"
Who is Ralindu "Lin" Eze?
Avoid this type of narration using words like "I" and "me"
What is first person?
The predicate of the following sentence:
My mom bought my brother new shoes.
What is bought my brother new shoes.
The part of speech of the bolded word:
The students quietly began their daily bell-ringer.
What is an adverb?
A character that does not undergo important change in the course of the story, remaining essentially the same at the end
What is a static character?
Anecdotes make up this short story by Sherman Alexie
What is "Indian Education"?
The five parts of an evidence-based paragraph in order
What are:
Topic sentence
Context
Evidence
Analysis
Conclusion
The type of clause bolded in the following sentence:
The class aced the quiz because they studied.
What is a dependent clause?
The *specific* part of speech that can combine two independent clauses with a comma
What is a coordinating conjunction?