Story Map
The beginning of the story where the characters and setting are introduced.
What is exposition?
The name for a word that is made up of two other words squished together.
Example: sun + flower = sunflower
What is a compound word?
The name for a "poetry paragraph."
What is a stanza?
The message/lesson/moral of the story.
What is theme?
Where do Claudia and Jamie live after they ran away from home?
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met).
The most exciting part of a story.
What is the climax?
Two words that sound the same but have different meanings.
Example: here and hear
What is a homophone?
A single row of text in a poem.
What is a line?
What a story is mostly about.
What is main idea?
The number of chambers your heart has.
What is four?
The part of the story where the characters try and try to solve the problem but are unsuccessful.
What is rising action?
The definition of the root word "graph"
What is "write?"
Poems can have this, it describes what words end each line in the same way.
What is a rhyme scheme/rhyme pattern?
Two words that have opposite meanings.
What are antonyms?
The three types of rocks.
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The part of the story where things return to normal after the problem is solved.
What is falling action?
What is "again?"
A type of Japanese poem about nature.
What is a Haiku?
Could be to persuade, inform, or entertain.
What is author's purpose?
The name of the most famous traitor in the American Revolution
The part of the story where characters reflect on what they learned.
What is resolution?
Definition of the prefix "inter"
What is between?
The name for the person narrating the poem.
Who is the speaker?
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
The name of the main character in "Love that Dog."
Who is Jack?