Realistic and Historical Fiction
This genre features stories that could be real but are made up.
This well-known high fantasy series features a magical wardrobe that leads to a land with a talking lion.
What is The Chronicles of Narnia, or The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The part of a mystery story where the detective reveals how they figured out who the culprit was.
What is the climax or resolution?
A book written by a person to tell the story of their own life.
What is an autobiography?
A type of poem where the first letters of each line spell out a word or a phrase.
What is an acrostic poem?
What is historical fiction?
Name one thing in imaginative fiction or fantasy that you won't find in realistic fiction.
Answers vary (magic, spells, magic creatures, imaginary worlds)
Small hints or "bits of evidence" left behind to help solve the crime.
What is a clue?
A book written to the story of someone else's life.
What is a biography?
A type of poem that has three lines, with 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second line, and 5 syllables in the third line.
What is a haiku?
A story about an 11 year old named Marty who finds a stray beagle
What is Shiloh?
Name one part of the hero's cycle.
What is the ordinary world, call to adventure, refusal of the call, crossing the threshold, tests, the ordeal, the reward, the road back, the resurrection, the return with the elixir?
This the term for a false clue designed to trick the detective or the reader.
What is a red herring?
A biography uses 1st person pronouns or 3rd person pronouns?
What is 3rd person.
Bam! Pop! Whoosh! Click-clack! Woof!
What is onomatopoeia?
A story where two kids are sent back in time to solve a mystery or a problem in the past.
What is historical fiction? or What is Tonight on the Titanic?
We talked about four types of Imaginative Fiction. Name one.
What is imaginative fiction, adventure, fantasy, or fairy tale.
A conclusion reached by combining clues from the text with your own reasoning, rather than what is directly stated.
What is inference?
This type of source can be a photograph, a journal entry, or legal documents.
What is a primary source?
When one word works wonders.
What is alliteration?
This type of conflict occurs when a character struggles with their own fear or emotion.
What is an internal conflict?
A detailed process that involves creating an entire universe for a story, including its own maps, history, and rules of magic
What is world building?
When you try to see a situation through someone else's eyes.
What is perspective or point of view.
The moment where the subject's life changes direction.
What is the turning point?
In poetry, a group of lines is called this.
What is a stanza?