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The central message or lesson about life that a reader can infer from a story.
What is the theme?
A problem that the characters in a story face.
Conflict
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
The opening section of an essay that introduces the topic, answers the prompt (if there is one) and includes the thesis / claim.
What is an introduction?
The facts, examples, quotations, or details an author uses to support a claim
What is evidence?
The perspective from which a story is told using words such as I or we.
What is first person POV?
The main character in a story.
Protagonist
It is raining cats and dogs.
What is hyperbole or what is an idiom?
In the sentence “The trophy was won by Maya,” the subject receives the action instead of performing it. What type of voice is used?
What is passive voice?
The explanation of WHY evidence supports the writer's claim.
What is reasoning?
A character who changes their beliefs, behavior, or understanding as a result of the conflict
What is a dynamic character?
Opposes the main character.
Antagonist
“When Jordan betrayed his teammates, he became the Benedict Arnold of the group.” What literary device compares Jordan to a famous historical traitor?
What is an allusion?
In the sentence “Swimming is my favorite activity,” the word swimming is a verb form acting as a noun. What is it called?
What is a gerund?
An appeal that persuades an audience through credibility or trustworthiness.
What is ethos?
Events in the story become complicated; the conflict is revealed. These are events between the introduction and climax.
What is rising action?
A graphic organizer that shows similarities and differences of something.
Venn Diagram
“The sunlight crept through the curtains and stretched its golden fingers across the floor.” What literary device gives sunlight human actions?
What is personification?
This punctuation mark connects two closely related independent clauses: “The storm ended__the sun came out.”
What is a semicolon ; ?
A student notices that the last four times she studied with flashcards, she earned an A on her vocabulary quiz. She concludes that using flashcards will help her earn an A on the next quiz.
What is inductive reasoning?
Beginning of the story; characters, background, and setting revealed.
What is the exposition?
The central message or the moral of the story.
Theme
A fire station burns to the ground because its sprinkler system malfunctions, and the firefighters are unable to save their own building. What type of irony is demonstrated, and what makes the situation ironic?
What is situational irony, because a fire station—a place designed to prevent and respond to fires—is destroyed by a fire?
The use of the same grammatical structure in a series of words, phrases, or sentences.
What is parallel structure?
A flawed argument that uses an attack on a person instead of addressing that person's argument.
What is ad hominem?