Story Building Blocks
This is the time and place in which a story happens.
What is setting?
A comparison using “like” or “as,” such as “He ran like the wind.”
What is a simile?
A word made by joining two smaller words, like toothbrush or sunshine.
What is a compound word?
This is the message or lesson the author wants the reader to learn from the story.
What is theme?
This is a really bad event that causes damage or suffering.
What is a calamity?
In a story, this is the struggle between opposing forces.
What is conflict?
This type of figurative language gives human qualities to non-human things, like “The leaves danced in the wind.”
What is personification?
If you don’t know a word, you can look at the words around it in a sentence. These helpful words are called what?
What are context clues?
If a story is told using “I” or “me,” what point of view is it written in?
What is first person?
Another word for high blood pressure
What is hypertension?
This is the conversation between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
A direct comparison that doesn’t use “like” or “as,” such as “Time is a thief.”
What is a metaphor?
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What is Corinne?
A story with a third-person point of view uses these pronouns.
What are he, she, they, and them?
This words means a lot, or in large amounts
What is profusely?
These appear in a play script and tell actors what to do, such as [walks to the door].
What are stage directions?
The author’s attitude or feeling toward the subject of a text is called this.
What is tone?
In the sentence “The creature was voracious, devouring everything in sight,” which word is the best context clue to figure out voracious?
What is devouring?
A lesser-used point-of-view that uses the pronoun "you"
What is second-person?
This words means rude, unfriendly, or bad-tempered
What is churlish?
This type of conflict happens inside a character’s mind, like when they struggle to make a tough choice.
What is internal conflict?
This literary device is when something happens that's the opposite of what you expect, and it's often kind of funny or surprising
What is irony?
The root “mono-” means this.
What is one or single?
This is when the narrator tells the story from many characters' thoughts and feelings (also known as the God point-of-view)
What is third-person omniscient?
This word means very beautiful
What is pulchritudinous?