ELA Terms (Story Elements)
Plot Elements
Genre
Parts of Speech
Figurative Language
100
What is foreshadowing?
Author will provide hints at events to come.
100
What is the plot?
The events that take place in a story.
100
What does genre mean?
A type of text or literary form.
100
What is a noun?
A part of speech that is the name of a person, place, thing or idea.
100
What is a metaphor?
Author compares unlike things, saying one thing is the other
200
What is a flashback?
Past events revisited in the present story.
200
What are all the elements of a plot? Or what are the names of the parts the plot is split into?
Resolution, falling action, action, climax, rising action and exposition.
200
What is a Biography?
An account of the life of an individual other than the writer
200
What is an adjective?
A part of speech that describes a noun.
200
What is personification?
Giving inanimate objects human qualities.
300
What is characterization?
The analysis of characters in a story based off of their Speech, Thoughts, Effect that characters have on each other, Actions, and Looks.
300
Which part of the plot introduces the main characters, setting and main conflict?
Exposition
300
What genre are most of R.L Stine (Goosebumps) and Stephen King (It or The Shining) books classified as?
Horror
300
What is the verb?
A part of speech, which tells what nouns, can do, be and feel. Shows action.
300
What type of figurative language is being used in this sentence: The tractor is moving like a sloth?
Simile
400
What is the difference between antagonist and protagonist?
The protagonist is the main character, often a hero. The antagonist is the character who opposes the protagonist, often a villain.
400
What is the difference between the rising action and falling action?
Rising leads to climax and falling leads to resolution
400
If Mrs. Lawrence wanted to write a story about her life, what genre would it be classified as?
Autobiography
400
Find the noun in this sentence: Mrs. Lawrence is so ready to start school back up.
Mrs. Lawrence
400
What type of figurative language is being used in this sentence: My feet are killing me!
Hyperbole
500
What is the difference between a round character and a flat character?
Flat characters are two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work. By contrast, round characters are complex and undergo development, sometimes sufficiently to surprise the reader.
500
Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution
500
What genre is this book: follows the quest of home-loving Bilbo Baggins, the titular hobbit, to win a share of the treasure guarded by a dragon named Smaug. Bilbo's journey takes him from his light-hearted, rural surroundings into more sinister territory.
Fantasy
500
Find the adverb in this sentence: Mr. Riegel was sprinting for an extremely long period of time at practice.
Adverb: Extremely
modifies a verb, adjective or adverb and shows a degree of manner. Extremely, easily or closely.
500
What type of figurative language is being used in this sentence: The truck engine roared as it drove through the mud?
onomatopoeia