Story Elements
Story Elements
Pot Pourri
Informational
Forms of Fiction
100
Combining clues from a story with what you know and figuring out what's going on.
What is inference?
100
What the story is about (Ex. growing up, friendship)
What is the subject?
100
A clever hero in a folk tale, usually the underdog.
What is a trickster?
100
Evidence which makes one think, "What does that have to do with anything?"
What is inappropriate evidence?
100
Probably the first stories people ever told usually about gods or heroes.
What are myths?
200
Drawings, photographs, maps, graphs, and tables used to help the reader picture something or to give more information.
What are illustrations?
200
To find the way things are different.
What is contrast?
200
A story of one's life written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
200
Pieces of information that can be proved true.
What is a fact?
200
A very old type of short story usually teaching a moral.
What is a fable?
300
The truth about life or human behavior that is revealed through a story.
What is theme?
300
Qualities of a character in a story (Ex. honesty, friendly)
What are character traits?
300
The most important thing a writer has to say about the subject.
What is the main idea?
300
A written or verbal belief or judgment supported by facts.
What is a credible source?
300
Exaggerated stories about historic events.
What is a legend?
400
To find all the ways two things are alike
What is compare?
400
Telling about the main events of a story in your own words.
What is summarizing?
400
The story of a real person's life, written or told by another person.
What is a biography?
400
Evidence which relies on trusting a person instead of relying on facts.
What is inadequate evidence?
400
Made-up stories.
What is fiction?
500
A reference to a statement, a person, a place or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics sports or science.
What is an allusion?
500
The words surrounding an unknown word or phrase that help the reader figure out the meaning of the unknown word.
What are context clues?
500
A broad, general conclusion drawn from several examples or pieces of evidence.
What is a generalization?
500
Personal beliefs or attitudes toward a topic.
What is an opinion?
500
A story shorter than a novel but longer than a short story.
What is a novella?
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