Story Map
The beginning of the story where the characters and setting are introduced.
What is introduction/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?
This person invented the Aqua Lung.
Who is Jacques Cousteau?
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 three types of rocks.
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 main character in Small Steps (the polio story).
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
The part of the story where things return to normal after the problem is solved.
What is falling action?
What is "again?"
A stanza with four lines.
What is a quatrain?
Could be to persuade, inform, or entertain.
What is author's purpose?
This was name of the act where soldiers could go into the homes of colonists without being asked.
What is the Quartering Act?
The part of the story where characters reflect on what they learned.
What is the conclusion/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 deadly disease that spread throughout Europe during the Middle Ages.
What is the black plague/black death?