Parts of Speech
Plot
Literary Elements
Persuasion
Comprehension
100
People, places, things, and ideas
What is a noun?
100
The most suspenseful part of a story, also known as the turning point.
What is the climax?
100
The good guy in the story.
What is the protagonist?
100
The number of paragraphs in a standard essay.
What is five?
100
To use this strategy, the reader pictures what is happening in his or her mind.
What is visualizing?
200
Describes people, places, things, and ideas.
What is an adjective?
200
The setting, characters, and problem revealed at the beginning of a story.
What is the exposition?
200
A type of problem that occurs inside the main character's mind.
What is an internal conflict?
200
This statement tells the author's position and how s/he will support it in the essay.
What is the thesis statement?
200
The reader uses this strategy to figure out the meaning of an unknown word.
What is context clues?
300
Action words.
What are verbs?
300
Tension builds leading up to the climax.
What is the rising action?
300
When the author takes the reader back into the past.
What is a flashback?
300
Number and data used to convince the reader of your position.
What is statistics?
300
The reader gets his or her mind ready to read by activating prior knowledge with this strategy.
What is pre-reading?
400
"I" "She" "He" "They" or "We"
What is a pronoun?
400
Loose ends are tied up and problems are solved.
What is the resolution?
400
The term for characters having a conversation.
What is dialogue?
400
A question meant to get readers thinking.
What is a rhetorical question?
400
The reader considers similarities and differences in the text with this strategy.
What is compare and contrast?
500
Under, over, above, or between.
What is a preposition?
500
This gets in the way of the main character solving the story's main problem.
What is a complication?
500
The message or lesson the author wants the reader to learn.
What is the theme?
500
Usually at the end of an essay, the author asks the reader to act upon the issue.
What is a call to action?
500
The reader links the reading to his or her own experiences with this strategy.
What is text-to-self connection.
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