parts of a story
The main idea of a paragraph.
Cities are a great place to live.
What is the the central idea?
"Life is like a box of chocolates."
What is a metaphor?
A form of language spoken by people in a particular region.
What is dialect?
The rhythmical pattern of a poem.
What is a meter?
When one person is on stage speaking to the audience
What is a monologue?
People can live in apartment buildings in the city.
What is a supporting detail.
"My cat is a log"
What is a simile
When characters speak to each other.
What is dialogue?
A 3 line Japanese poem with 17 syllables.
What is haiku?
Place and time period
What is the setting?
Giving non-human objects human characteristics
What is personification?
What is onomatopoeia
What is iambic pentameter
How the play ends.
What is the resolution?
The main character.
What is the protagonist?
When the author takes the reader back in time to a memory.
What is a flashback?
A brief story with animal characters, that teaches a lesson.
What is a fable.
A chunk of lines in a poem (like a paragraph)
What is a stanza?
The struggle or problem in the story of the main character.
What is the conflict?
A prediction or hints of what will happen.
What is foreshadowing?
Bob built a brilliant boat.
What is alliteration?
What is the plot.
Two lines of poetry that stand alone or apart from the rest of the poem. Often these two lines will rhyme and have the same meter, but not always.
What is a couplet?
One person is speaking on the stage revealing his thoughts
What is a soliloquy?