Story Elements
The people or animals of a story.
What are "characters"?
A text structure that provides information in order or gives a history of something.
What is chronological or sequential?
In a story, the type of narrator telling the story.
What is "point of view"?
"As quick as a cricket" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
The three types of an author's purpose (hint: think pie).
What is persuade, inform, and entertain?
What and when the story takes place.
What is "setting"?
A text structure that tells how things are alike and different.
What is compare and contrast?
A brief overview of the most important parts of a story or text.
What is "summary"?
"She is the apple of my eye" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
The narrator of a story that is told from one character's point of view (uses "I," "me," etc.)
What is first-person narrator?
The conclusion or solution of a story.
What is "resolution"?
A text structure that gives details about something. Usually you choose this text structure if it doesn't fit any other category.
What is description?
The message, moral, or lesson learned from the story.
What is theme?
"Zoom!" "Splat!" "Buzz" are different examples of this.
What is onomatopoeia?
Someone who is telling the story and is all-knowing of all the characters' thoughts, feelings, and actions.
What is third person narrator?
The problem in the story that needs solving.
What is "conflict"?
Writing that describes and issue and how to solve it.
What is problem and solution?
Pictures, captions, and headings are all examples of this.
What are text features?
"She is a busy bee" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
To carefully look at something and determine what it means.
What is analyze or deconstruct the prompt?
Important events that occur in the story.
What are "key events"?
A text structure that explains why something happened.
What is cause and effect?
What a story or non-fiction article is mainly about.
What is the main idea?
"The tree danced in the wind" is an example of this.
What is personification?
Using clues from the text and your own knowledge to figure out something that isn't directly stated is to do this.
What is infer?