Literary Elements
The people or animals that act out the story.
What a passage is about.
What is main idea?
Fill in the blank with the correct conjunction
Ex: Tommy's favorite snack is a peanut butter ____ jelly sandwich.
And
A person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
A description of an author's own experience.
What is firsthand account?
The person who writes the story.
What is the author?
Cellphones have changed the world forever. Over the last few decades, cellphones have gone from just being able to make phone calls to being a computer, gps, and music player that can fit in your pocket.
What is the main idea of the passage above?
Cellphones have changed the world.
Give an example of a conjunction.
And, or, but, if, for, nor, etc.
What is a verb?
A description of someone else's experience told by an author.
What is a secondhand account?
The time and the place of the story.
What is the setting?
Where is the main idea typically found?
The first sentence of a passage.
Identify the type of conjunction that is in this sentence:
As soon as Jeremiah got home he went straight to sleep.
A word that describes a noun. It tells you about a noun.
What is an adjective?
An autobiography and a diary are an example of a ______hand account.
What is firsthand account?
The events that happen in the story.
What is the plot?
Which clues help to find the main idea?
The supporting details/ key details.
The meaning of "FANBOYS".
F- for
A- and
N- nor
B- but
O- or
Y- yet
S- so
A word that describes a verb. It tells how something was done.
Example: quickly, slowly
What is an adverb?
A textbook, photograph, or encyclopedia are examples of a ________hand account.
What is secondhand account?
The central message, moral, or lesson of a story.
What is theme?
Describe the difference between main idea and theme.
The main idea is what a story is about. The theme is the message of a story or passage.
What are the three type of conjunctions?
Coordinating conjunctions, correlative conjunctions, and subordinating conjunctions.
A word used instead of a noun to avoid repeating a noun.
Ex: I, he , you
What is a pronoun?
In Frederick Douglass' autobiography, he described the last time he saw his mother.
Is this firsthand or secondhand?
Firsthand account.