Story Elements
The people or animals who are important to the story.
Who are the Characters?
The reader must make inferences about the characters with the information given by the author.
What is Indirect Characterization?
The structure of written text is laid out to show different issues and solutions for a situation.
What is Problem and Solution?
A paragraph in poetry.
What is a Stanza?
Giving human qualities/characteristics to nonhuman or inanimate objects.
What is Personification?
The event that causes the climax.
What is the Inciting Incident?
An educated guess based on background knowledge and text evidence.
What is Inference?
What is the Main Idea/ Central Idea?
The termination of one line of poetry, and the beginning of a new line of poetry.
What is Line Break?
A word or phrase that is not taken literally or seriously.
What is an Idiom?
Two types of main characters in a story. One is the hero the other is someone who opposes the hero.
Who are the Protagonist and the Antagonist?
Something that is stated directly and clearly.
What is Explicit?
Uses the following words in the text:
after, before, finally, last, in order, until, meanwhile, next, etc.
What is Sequence?
The order pattern at the end of a line of poetry.
What is a Rhyme Scheme?
Expresses an abstract idea using an item or words.
eagle=freedom
What is Symbolism?
Beginning, Middle and End of a story.
What are the Exposition (Introduction), Climax, and Resolution?
Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How are used to condense text into your own words.
What is Summarize?
Uses the following words in the text:
Because, led to, reason, accordingly, result, consequence.
What is Cause-and-Effect?
A poem consisting of 14 lines of iambic pentameter. Shakespeare wrote 139 of them.
What is a Sonnet?
Play on words. They add extra meaning to a subject and are often seen as a form of a joke.
What is Puns?
Person Vs Person/Person Vs Technology/Person Vs Nature/Person Vs Society/Person Vs Supernatural are types of problems outside the world.
What is External Conflict?
What is Imagery/Sensory Language?
All the components of an informational text or story that are not included in the main body text.
What are Text Features?
1st line-5 syllables
2nd line- 7 syllables
3rd line- 5 syllables
What is a Haiku?
The substitution of a mild or pleasant expression for one that is too strong or unpleasant.
What is an Euphemism?