Plot
Mountain
Literary
Devices
Folktale
Elements
Idioms
Adjectives
100
Highest point-descriptive details about the problem
Climax
100
The chair danced as the baby bounced to and fro.
Personification
100
Good v.s. Evil
Theme
100
A bummer
Brings you down
100
There is a squirrel on our front porch.
Front
200
Introduce the characters, problem, and moral. (hints)
Exposition
200
He clattered and clanged as he washed the dishes.
Onomatopoiea
200
Long, long time ago
Setting
200
A fly on the wall
Eavesdrop
200
We sat underneath a shady umbrella
Shady
300
The problem is resolved-the solution
Resolution
300
She claims that she had invented the question mark!
Hyperbole
300
Kindness of the main character learning their lesson
Plot
300
Beat around the bush
Stall
300
Sally picked up sixteen rocks when she walked by the creek.
Sixteen
400
Events leading up to the problem
Rising Action
400
Have a ball
Idiom
400
Not very plausible
Style/Tone
400
I'm in the dark
Uninformed
400
Jay and Kay live in the biggest house on the block.
Biggest
500
Things start to settle down
Falling Action
500
Larry’s lizard likes leaping leopards
Alliteration
500
Hero/Heroine
Characteristic
500
Pick my brain
Insult
500
How do my new glasses look?
New
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