Story Elements
Reading Strategies
The Afterlife Char
Afterlife Facts
vocab
100
The character(s) that most of the story is about.
Who is the main character(s)?
100
Guessing what will happen next in a story.
What is predicting?
100
The main character is _______
Who is Chuy?
100
The setting of the story is _______________
What is Fresno and Selma in current day?
100
A victor is a __________ a. winner b. loser
What is a.winner
200
The time and place that the story takes place.
What is the setting?
200
The pictures you make in your head while you read is called _______________.
What is visualizing?
200
He is the killer.
Who is Yellow Shoes?
200
This is how Chuy died.
What is "he was stabbed in a bathroom at a club"
200
If music is blaring, it is ____________.
What is loud?
300
The problem in the story is called the ______________. a)plot b) conflict c)theme
What is the conflict?
300
When you put events in order in a story, you are ________________.
What is sequencing?
300
This character is the main character's cousin.
Who is Eddie?
300
This is how and why Crystal killed herself.
What is " she took pills because she thought she would not make anything of herself."
300
Crystal had ambition and did not want to be successful. This statement is stated correctly? true false
What is false. ambition means she wants success
400
The pictures in the story are called the _________________
What is an illustration?
400
The clues in text that help you figure out unknown words are called ________ ________.
What are context clues?
400
This character said "I should have been with him; we could have took them."
Who is Angel?
400
What is one theme of the story? a. revenge is senseless b. love is not going to last c. you will get away with it if you stab someone.
What is a. revenge is senseless?
400
Lingered means: a. to stop b. to sing loudly c. to stay or remain
What is c. to stay or remain?
500
The main elements of the story that include the introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and outcomes in the story. a)plot b) conflict c) theme
What is the plot?
500
When an author refers back to an event in the past, it is called f_______________ and when they are giving clues to what will happen in the future, it is called f_____________.
What is flashback and foreshadow.
500
These two girls are love interests of Chuy in the story.
Who is Rachel and Crystal?
500
Name one place Chuy visits at the end of the story.
What is Raiders Game, his own rosary service, the church where his funeral will be, Crystal.
500
The dust twister can also be called a ______________
What is ...a little tornado; strong wind storm?
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