Categories for literary and informational works (biography, mystery, historical fiction, nonfiction, drama, etc.)
What is genres ?
100
The time and place of a story that helps create the mood in a story as inside a spooky house or inside a shopping mall during the holidays.
What is setting ?
100
Opening of the story- where setting is often discribed, characters are introduced and the narrator's point of view is revealed.
What is introduction ?
100
Example: My bedroom is a junkyard !
What is an example of a metaphor ?
100
Tells how a character looks, dresses, age...
What is the character's description?
200
language not meant to be taken literally: metaphors, personification, hyperboles, and similes.
What is figurative language or figures of speech ?
200
A series of events or pattern of events that "make up the story." (tells what happens).
What is plot ?
200
The struggle (s) between different forces in the story which are the main interest of the story.
Examples- character vs. nature, character vs. character, character vs. himself/herself and character vs. society. Maybe more than one of these in a story.
What is conflict ?
200
Example: My mind is like a computer.
What is an example of a simile ?
200
Conversation between 2 or more people.
What is dialogue ?
300
A figure of speech in which non-human things are given human-like qualities.
What is personification ?
300
The "most" exciting moment in the story or the "turning point" in the story.
What is climax ?
300
Return to previous events by way of characters telling memories, dreams, family stories, etc. to each other or the reader.
What is flashback ?
300
The wind pushed the car across the road.
What is personification ?
300
Show the character's "true self." (hint:_________ speak louder than words).
What is the character's actions?
400
The perspective or outlook from which a writer tells a story. (1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person-objective, subjective, limited or omniscient.
What is point of view ?
400
Final part of the story when the characters' problems are solved and the story ends.
What is resolution ?
400
The central idea, moral, message by the author, and/or lesson of a short story, novel, poetry, and/or play. It is never "stated."
What is theme ?
400
I'm soo hungry, I can eat a horse.
What is example of a hyperbole
400
Telling of the story through the speaker (hint: could be one of characters in the story or an unknown observer,etc.)
What is narration ?
500
The use of description, narration, dialogue and actions used by the author to reveal/develop this/these are ________
What is the four ways authors reveal/develop the character's traits ?
500
Clues or hints to events to come.
What is forshadowing?
500
How the author reveals the traits of the character
What is characterization ?
500
Example:She cried for days!
What is an example of a hyperbole?
500
Features of the character-good or bad. (hint: loyal, honest, street-smart, dishonest,etc.)