Genre
Characters
Plot
Conflict
Miscellaneous
100
These stories are often about real people, in real situations dealing with real problems.
What is realistic fiction?
100
Peter Augustus Duchene is the main character in The Magician's Elephant.
What is the protagonist?
100
A brief description of a story is often found in a book review.
What is plot?
100
This element motivates the action of the plot or keeps the story moving.
What is Conflict?
100
The place and time of a story is often provided in a book review.
What is setting?
200
These stories include research about the time, people and happenings of long ago.
What is Historical Fiction?
200
Hans Ickman has a small part in The Magician's Elephant.
What is a flat character?
200
This is when the most exciting part of the story or a major turning point in a story occurs.
What is climax?
200
This is conflict in which a person struggles to change something about him or her self.
What is Person vs. Self?
200
This is how things end in a story.
What is resolution?
300
Diary of a Wimpy Kid is one of these books.
What is humorous fiction?
300
We know a lot about Peter Augustus Duchene.
What is a round character?
300
This point of view is when the narrator speaks using "I" or "me" or "my" when telling the story.
What is first person point of view?
300
Peter has a disagreement with Vilna Lutz in The Magician's Elephant.
What is Person vs. Person?
300
These hints are sprinkled throughout the story. They also occur later in the story. Readers make predictions based on these clues.
What is foreshadowing?
400
These are books told through poetry or verse.
What is poetic fiction?
400
This person often works against the main character.
What is an antagonist?
400
This would occur if you give away the ending of the book.
What is a spoiler?
400
In Hatchet, a boy must learn to survive on his own.
What is Person vs. Nature?
400
The feeling or emotion a story creates in the reader as they read it.
What is mood?
500
The Twilight Series are a combination of romance and fantasy.
What is a genre-blend or multi-genre story?
500
We would know a lot about these characters.
What are round characters?
500
At the end of the book, all of the reader's questions will be answered...all of the loose ends will be tied together.
What is denouement?
500
This is one type of conflict that involves aliens.
What is Person vs. Supernatural?
500
Life messages that readers can identify with after reading a story.
What are themes?
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