Story Elements
Narrative Writing
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Vocabulary
Potpourri
100
Where and when a story takes place is called this.

What is setting?

100

Whenever writing a story, one should always establish this in the beginning.

What is mood?

100

The main conflict in Mr. Popper's Penguins is this.

What are money worries?

100

This prefix means "one hundredth".

What is centi-?

100

Mrs. Scarborough's favorite Halloween candy is this.

What is Twix?

200

This is the series of events in a story beginning after the conflict is introduced.

What is the plot?

200
These are the three parts of a story.

What are beginning, middle, and end?

200

The penguin who led the march during the Popper's Performing Penguins act with a flag in its mouth was this penguin.

Who is Louisa?
200

This word is a series of moving pictures on a screen.

What is a movie?
200

There are this many syllables in the vocabulary word that means "a stopping or standing place".

What are 2 syllables?

300

When a conflict is solved is called this.

What is solution/resolution?
300

Whenever using dialogue in a story, you should always use this punctuation mark, which surround what a character says.

What are quotation marks?

300

Admiral Drake offered Mr. Popper to go here with his penguins.

What is the North Pole?

300

This root means "to write or draw".

What is GRAPH?

300

The root in the word "metronome" is this, meaning "measure".

What is METR?

400

In the exposition (beginning) of a story, these three elements are introduced.

What are characters, setting, and conflict?

400

When writing a narrative, one should always use these specific types of details as they appeal to the five senses.

What are sensory details?

400

Mr. Klein offered the Poppers this amount of money to put the penguins in a short movie before their departure to the North Pole.

What is $25,000?

400

You may measure the distance of a baseball from one end to the other using this type of measurement.

What is diameter?

400

This is the term for the ending of a narrative; the bow on the top of the present.

What is the denouement?

500
A character who does not change in a story is called this type of character.  *Hint: it was a vocabulary word!

What is static character?

500

This is the point in the story of most suspense; the turning point in any fiction story.

What is the climax?

500

This is the person who called Captain Cook an anteater as he was pecking at her stocking.

Who is Mrs. Callahan?

500

This root means "stop".

What is STA?

500

This is the chapter when Florence Atwater took over writing for Richard.

What is Chapter 10, "Shadows"?

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