Elements of Art
All Vocabulary
Amos & Boris
Story Elements
Writing Skills
100

What is the term for the way an artist organizes their work on the canvas?

Composition

100

This word means to look around and learn more about something.

Explore

100

A word that means very large or huge.

Colossal

100

What do we call the turning point in a story?

Climax
100

This means to change or improve something

Revise

200

This term describes a three-dimensional shape.

Form

200

This kind of sentence tells you to do something, and can be punctuated at the end with a period or an exclamation.

Command

200

If something is bright and gives off light, it is said to be this

Luminous

200

The part of a story that describes where and when it takes place?

Setting

200

What is the information from the text that supports your answer?

Evidence

300

An artist may choose to use these different things in their artwork: Maroon, Goldenrod, or Carribbean Blue

Color

300

This sentence type is used when saying something simple and ends with a period. 

Statement

300

To feel confused or unable to think clearly because of too much information.

Overwhelmed

300

What is the problem in a story that needs to be solved?

Solution

300

When you explain what a text means using your own words, it's called this.

Summary

400

These are curvy, diagonal, horizontal or straight

Lines

400

What type of writing tells a story that is made up, not real?

Fiction

400

A tiny piece of something, often used to describe stars or dust.

Speck

400

What is the sequence of events in a story called?

Plot

400

Every sentence should begin with this

Capital letters

500

This is a group of lines in a poem

Stanza

500

This word means to feel very sad or in need.

Desperately

500

These are the people or creatures in the story

Characters

500

This big chunk of writing requires 4 to 5 complete sentences

Paragraph

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