Basic Elements
One of the people or animals in a story.
a. plot
b. character
c. setting
What is a character?
A problem between characters.
a. person vs. self
b. person vs. person
c. person vs. society
What is Person Against Person?
The angle by which a story is told. The angle depends upon the narrator, or person telling the story.
a. point of view
b. character
c. dialogue
What is Point of View?
The message about life or human nature that is "hidden" in the story that the writer tells.
a. plot
b. tone
c. theme
What is Theme?
What is nonfiction?
a. made up
b. real
c. a movie
What is real
The person or force that works against the hero/main character in the story.
a. protagonist
b. antagonist
c. good guy
What is the Antagonist?
A problem within a character's own mind..
a. person vs. self
b. person vs. person
c. person vs. nature
What is a Problem Against Self?
One of the characters in the story is telling the story. (I, me)
a. first person
b. second-person
c. third person
What is First-Person Point of View?
The feeling a piece of literature creates in a reader.
a. mood
b. theme
c. conflict
What is Mood?
What is it called in the back of the book where words are given definitions?
a. index
b. glossary
c. table of contents
What is glossary
The main character in a story, often a good or heroic type.
a. protagonist
b. antagonist
c. villain
What is the Protagonist?
A problem between a character and society, school, the Law, or some tradition.
a. person vs. supernatural
b. person vs. nature
c. person vs. society
What is a Person Against Society?
You are part of the story because you are a character in the story. (you, your)
a. first person
b. second-person
c. third person
What is Second-Person Point of View?
The biggest turning point in a story. It is the top of the plot diagram.
a. exposition
b. rising action
c. climax
What is climax
This text feature is attached to a picture to describe what is happening.
a. map
b. heading
c. caption
What is caption
The place and time frame in which a story takes place.
a. character
b. plot
c. setting
What is the Setting?
A problem between a character and some element of nature - a blizzard, a hurricane, a mountain climb, etc.
a. person vs. supernatural
b. person vs. nature
c. person vs. technology
What is a Person Against Nature?
Third-Person point of view allows the narrator to share the thoughts and feelings of two or more characters. (all, everything)
a. third-person limited
b. third-person omniscient
c. third-person objective
What is Third-Person Omniscient?
Figurative language that compares two things using like or as.
a. metaphor
b. simile
c. personification
What is simile
This text feature tells what each section will be about.
a. heading
b. diagram
c. pictures
What is the heading
The action that makes up the story.
a. plot
b. resolution
c. setting
What is the Plot?
A problem or struggle with a magical being, such as a fairy or ghost.
a. person vs. supernatural
b. person vs. technology
c. person vs. person
What is a Person vs. supernatural
When the author wants you to connect with a character, which point of view do they typically write it?
a. first person
b. second person
c. third person
What is first person
Figurative language that exaggerates what is actually happening (You are taking a million years to get ready).
a. idiom
b. personification
c. hyperbole
What is hyperbole?
What type of nonfiction is written about someone else's life?
a. journal
b. biography
c. newspaper
What is biography