Elements of Stories
Grammar
Genre
Argument
Potpourri
100

This describes the events of a story

What is the plot?

100
A person, place, or thing. 

What is a noun?

100

This is what genre means; the _____ of story. 

What is type?
100

This is an appeal to emotion

What is pathos?
100

This is the problem of a story

What is the conflict?

200

This is the most intense part of a story

What is the climax?

200

This is a noun that must be capitalized, such as a name. 

What is a proper noun?

200

This genre typically has an investigator and clues. 

What is a mystery?

200

This is an appeal to authority

What is ethos?

200

This connects two complete sentences. 

What is a semicolon?

300

This is the beginning of the story, which introduces the setting and characters

What is the exposition?

300

This describes an noun. 

What is an adjective?

300

This genre takes place in the past, often during significant times. 

What is historical fiction?

300

This is an appeal to logic

What is logos?

300

This genre often has magic, strange creatures, and different worlds. 

What is fantasy?

400

Setting describes this in a story

What is the time and place?

400

Correct the following sentence: The brown ugly small cow ate his grass milk and hay. (Does not have to be in the form of a question, vocalize any punctuation changes.). 

The ugly small brown cow ate his grass, milk, and hay. 

400

This genre has lines and stage directions; not a play. 

What is drama?

400

This is who you are trying to persuade (in a paper or a speech). 

What is an audience?

400

This is something you should delete from the beginning of your sentences in order to make it stronger.

What is "I think/believe/etc"

500

This describes how the story's conflict ends

What is the resolution?

500

Combine the following sentences: Kevin came over to eat seaweed. He doesn't like seaweed. 

Kevin came over to eat seaweed, but he doesn't like seaweed. 

500

This person is considered the first American author

Who is Mark Twain?

500

This is the word for when a sentence structure is repeated (such as "I came, I saw, I conquered.")

What is parallelism?

500

The name of Mr. Dinsmore's dog. 

Who is Wax?

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