Elements of Fiction
This is the time and place in which a story happens.
What is the setting?
This type of figurative language compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
This is the first paragraph of an essay that introduces the topic and includes the thesis statement.
What is the introduction?
This Indigenous group has lived in Nova Scotia for thousands of years and are the original inhabitants of the region.
Who are the Mi'kmaq?
This student received an award for the Science fair.
Who is Hannah?
This is the main character in a story, often the hero.
Who is the protagonist?
"The classroom was a zoo during free time."
What is a metaphor?
This is the sentence that clearly states the main idea or argument of the essay.
What is the thesis statement?
This group of French settlers arrived in the 1600s and built dikes to farm the land around the Bay of Fundy.
Who are the Acadians?
These students shared many great ideas for our topics for 2-minute talks.
Who are Amelia and Loic?
This is the sequence of events in a story, usually including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
What is the plot?
In the phrase “The wind whispered through the trees,” the wind is doing something only humans can do.
What is personification?
These paragraphs each support the thesis with a topic sentence, evidence, and explanation.
What are body paragraphs?
These people of African descent came to Nova Scotia after the American Revolution.
Who are the Black Loyalists?
This student received the ELA 7 award.
Who is Eloise?
This element is the struggle between opposing forces, such as character vs. character or character vs. nature.
What is conflict?
This figure of speech uses extreme exaggeration, like in “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!”
What is hyperbole?
This is the last paragraph of an essay that restates the thesis and wraps up the main points.
What is the conclusion?
These people came to Nova Scotia from Scotland in the late 1700s and 1800s, bringing their language, music, and traditions.
Who are the Gaelic settlers?
This student was named student of the term in term 2.
Who is Casey?
This is the message or lesson the author wants the reader to learn.
What is the theme?
“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers” is an example of this sound device.
What is alliteration?
These words or phrases, like "however", "in addition", or "for example", help ideas flow smoothly.
What are transition words?
This European group changed laws and government structures, and brought the English language to Nova Scotia.
Who are the British colonizers?
This student has a birthday over the summer!
Who is Noah?