Genre
Fiction/Story Elements
The House on Mango Street
Informational Text
Extra Credit
Questions and answers provided by students
100
It has a lot of suspense in order to keep the reader guessing what will happen next
What is a mystery
100
The main character of a story.
Who is the protagonist?
100
The setting of The House of Mango Street
Where is Chicago?
100
The section title that is usually written in bold or italics
What is a heading?
200
A story, usually spoken, that has a moral. It teaches us about behavior
What is a fable
200
The main idea or what the story is mostly about
What is theme?
200
This is proof to support your the thesis when writing a an informational document?
What is evidence?
300
A person's life story written by him/herself
What is an autobiography
300
The time and place of story or poem
What is setting
300
The main character of The House on Mango Street.
Who is Esperanza?
300
These are explanatory paragraphs that are under a heading
What are subheading?
300
A character who changes over the course of a story or novel
What is a dynamic character
400
This type of story has a lot of blood and symbols of death
What is a horror story
400
The main character
Who is the protagonist
400
This is an explanation of a heading.
What is a caption?
400
The author's attitude. In the Tell-Tale Heart is depressed and gloomy.
What is the tone
500
The characters are fictional but the events might actually happen in real life.
What is realistic fiction?
500
The sequence of events or what happens in a novel or story
What is the plot
500
A list of resources: books, DVDs, articles, websites that are found at the end of an article.
What is a bibliography?
500
This means 'death' in The Tell Tale Heart
What is a symbol
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