A conflict that involves a struggle with yourself.
What is internal conflict?
100
A logical guess about what will happen in the future.
What is a prediction?
100
A logical guess based on details and reasoning and involving the present time.
What is an inference?
100
The part of the plot that wraps everything up.
What is resolution?
200
Those qualities which describe a characters personality.
What are character traits?
200
A statement that can be proven true or false.
What is a fact?
200
A phrase that means something other than its literal meaning, such as down in the dumps.
What is an idiom?
200
The part of the plot that introduces us to the setting, characters, and basic situation.
What is the exposition?
200
The point of view of the following statement: "Max ran into the millpond with Kevin on his shoulders."
What is third person?
300
The point of view of the following statement: "I hoisted Freak onto my shoulders and ran as fast as I could."
What is first person?
300
The problem a character faces in a story. Without this, there is no story.
What is conflict?
300
'The morning sun kissed the mountains goodnight as it settled over the horizon' is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is personification?
300
'More powerful than a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet' is an example of this.
What is hyperbole?
300
The turning point in a story. the point of most interest.
What is the climax?
400
The time and place of the action of a story.
What is setting?
400
The rhyme scheme in this stanza:
Imagine if your precious nose
were sandwiched in between your toes,
that clearly would not be a treat
for you'd be forced to smell your feet.
What is aabb?
400
Words surrounding unfamiliar words that help you get the meaning of the unfamiliar words.
What are context clues?
400
The message (often about life) that the author is trying to convey to the reader.
What is the theme?
400
The main idea of any passage.
What is what it is about?
500
Everything in a story from beginning to end: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
What is plot?
500
This is what makes a character say certain things or act in a certain way.
What is character motivation?
500
An example of this is found in the following statement: Tiny Tim tried to love Scrooge.
What is alliteration?
500
Figurative language: The moon was a flashlight lighting our way.
What is metaphor?
500
Figurative language: His voice boomed out like a cannon.