Plot Pyramid
Figurative Language
Fiction Signposts
Types of Characters
Genre
100

What is the time and place of the story?

Setting

100

What is a comparison using like or as?

Simile

100

When a character has a flashback

Memory Moment

100

The main characters/heroes 

Protagonist

100

A story has unreal characters or unreal plot lines.

Fantasy 

200

the turning point of the story

climax

200

A phrase or saying

Idiom

200

The moment where the character finally understand something

Aha Moment 

200

The bad guy or villian

Antagonist

200

A problem solving, suspenseful, story. 

Mystery 

300

The end of the story when the problem is solved

Resolution

300

When the text uses the same first sound for each word?

Alliteration

300

When the character does something over and over 

Again and Again 

300

Someone you can assume something about

Stereotypes

300

A story that takes place in history

Historical Fiction  

400

The intro or very beginning of the story

Exposition

400

What is giving human like features to objects and animals?

Personification

400

When an older or smarter character gives another character advice 

Words of the wiser

400

A character that doesn't have much to them in the story?

Static

400

A story where the characters go a quest or travel a lot. 

Adventure

500

The point of the story that starts the rest of it

Inciting Incident

500

A sound or noise

Onomatopoeia

500

When the character has to ask them self a difficult question

Tough Questions

500

A character who undergoes some important change in the course of the story?

Dynamic

500

A folk tale that teaches a moral or lesson (often including animals as characters)

Fable 

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