Plot Elements
Time and location of a story
What is setting?
A word with a common root to geology
Answers may vary
The feeling a piece of literature creates in a reader
What is mood?
The name the author of "Better Than Words" calls people who disagree with her
What is cavemen?
The perspective from which the story is told
What is point of view?
The turning point in the story - The point of maximum interest - The point when power changes hands
What is climax?
A tool that helps outline everything that happens in a story
The message or lesson an author reveals through his/her writing
What is theme?
The type of evidence the author uses in "Omg not another selfie"
Quote from an expert
Perspective from which an informational text is told
What is objective point of view?
The part of the plot that introduces characters, setting, and conflict
What is the exposition?
Occurs when a writer makes a comparison without using like or as
What is metaphor?
The reason an author might include subheadings.
What is organizing the text?
Making a big deal out of something and kind of lying
Exaggerating
The author's purpose in an argumentative essay about why TikTok is important
What is to persuade?
When the consequences of the climax are revealed - Also, loose ends of the story are tied up and tension begins to ease.
What is falling action?
A feeling of growing tension and excitement
What is suspense?
A genre that draws on the author's memories
What is memoir?
The reason Elizabeth Vigee Le Brun was successful as a painter
She knew how to sell her skills
Author's purpose in an informational essay about the psychology of middle schoolers
What is to inform
Occurs during the rising action
What are complications - which result from characters struggling with conflict?
The reason the author from Brown Girl Dreaming wrote in poems
What is to express how people recall memories?
The part of the plot when the story's central problem is solved, leaving the reader with a sense of story completion
What is resolution/denouement?
The mood of both the yawning painting and the painting of the man with his wife.
Lighthearted.
If the author's purpose is to entertain, the perspective is most likely a...
What is a subjective point of view?