Story Elements
Figurative Language
Parts of Speech
100
Time, weather, year, month, city
What is the setting?
100
Compares two things using like or as
What is simile?
100
boy, chair
What iare nouns?
200
People, animals, machines
What is character?
200
Manner of speaking that doesn't directly translate: It's raining cats and dogs
What is an idiom?
200
jump, sing, dance
What iare verbs?
300
The events: rising action, climax, falling action
What is the plot?
300
What is my Dad is a bear in the morning?
What is metaphor
300
tall, fat, pretty
What are adjectives?
400
The wrap-up to the story
What is denouement? (resolution)
400
Blam, blast, boom
What is onomatopoeia? or Alliteration
400
slowly, quietly, quickly
What are adverbs?
500
The problem or struggle
What is the confglict?
500
That teacher is meaner than a junkyard dog.
What is hyperbole?
500
under, on, before, over, after
What are prepositions?
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