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

What is setting?

100

This can be written in first person, third person, or rarely, second person.

What is point of view?

100

The main conflict in Mr. Popper's Penguins.

What are money worries?

100

This prefix means "one hundredth".

What is centi-?

100

This is Ms. Schoenbeck's son's name.

Who is Adam?

200

This is the series of events in a story.

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.

Who is Louisa?

200

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

What is a movie?
200

Ms. Schoenbeck's favorite two colors.

What are pink and green?

300

When a conflict is solved, it is called this.

What is solution/resolution?

300

Whenever using dialogue in a story, you should always use this punctuation mark, which surrounds 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

This is Ms. Schoenbeck's favorite book genre.

What is mystery?

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

Ms. Schoenbeck's dog is (probably) a combination of these 3 dog breeds.

What is boxer, pug, and corgi?

500

What the "bad guy" in a story is called.

What is the antagonist?

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 word using a vocabulary word and a suffix means "without background noise".

What is staticless?

500
This was the name Ms. Schoenbeck used for her main character in her "20-Sentence Story".

What is "Avery"?

M
e
n
u