Plot Terms
Part of Speech
Elements of a Story
Informational Texts
Grammar Hints
100
The part of a story when the reader finds out the main characters and the setting. (Bonus point if you can identify both terms)
What is the basic situation? (or exposition)
100
California
What is a proper noun?
100
The time and/or place of a story.
What is setting?
100
The term for how much information a text covers.
What is scope?
100
Examples include and, or, but, so.
What is a conjunction?
200
A problem that pushes a story forward.
What is conflict?
200
reluctantly
What is an adverb?
200
The overall feeling of a story.
What is mood?
200
Text or tone that is based on opinions or is persuasive.
What is subjective?
200
Names a specific person, place or thing
What is a proper noun?
300
When the main conflict of a story is decided one way or the other.
What is the climax?
300
red
What is adjective?
300
The author's attitude or opinion towards a subject.
What is tone?
300
Text that goes in order by time.
What is chronological?
300
Ends in -ly.
What is an adverb?
400
The part of the story where many events and complications occur.
What is the rising action?
400
is
What is a verb?
400
Sensory details are used often in describing setting. List them.
What are sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell?
400
A text that is organized to discus similarities and differences between two things.
What is compare and contrast?
400
"This game gives me a headache." What is the verb/predicate in the sentence.
What is gives?
500
A minor plot that occurs in a story.
What is subplot?
500
The three things an adverb can modify.
What is verb, adjective, and adverb?
500
The part of speech usually used to describe the mood of a story.
What are adjectives?
500
Treatment is the term for how an author discusses a topic. What is a synonym for this that we learned in this chapter?
What is tone?
500
Name the subject of the following sentence: My dog ate the roast beef sandwich.
What is dog?
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