Story Elements
setting & characters
What is Exposition
An educated guess
What is an Inference
The view an author is
writing from
What is Point of View
novels, stories,
poems, movies
What is to Entertain
The main argument
an author is making
What is a central
Claim
series of events build
up to the climax
What is the Rising
Action
To make notes on the text.
What is to Annotate
Evidence that backs
up a claim
What is Support
a title of a section
within a larger text
What is a subtitle
An author's overall
message
What is Theme
The end of a story
What is the
Resolution
the text says it
What is Explicit
Words that have the
same meaning as
other words
What is a Synonym
text provides facts
What is to Inform
The process or the
way something
happens
What is develop
The turning point of
the story
What is the Climax
text doesn’t say it
What is implicit
An author's message
in a story
What is Theme
tries to get the reader to side with their opinion
What is to Persuade
When you find the
differences and
similarities
What is Contrast and
Compare
Where events and complications begin to resolve
What is the Falling
Action
“Proof”
What is Evidence
#1 Something that is NOT in the text
● #2 because...
● #3 Use supporting evidence to back up what you are inferring.
Steps to making an
inference
to point out a
difference
What is to
Distinguish
The beginning before
a quote, the quote,
explain the quote
What is a quote
sandwich