Plot Structure
Academic Literacy
Genre & Literary Terms
Sentences
Parts of Speech
100
The turning point of the story
What is the climax?
100
Your likes and dislikes as a reader.
What is reader identity?
100
Life stories told by the person himself
What is an autobiography?
100
I am on my way to lunch.
What is a declarative sentence?
100
A person, place, thing or idea
What is a noun?
200
The action following the climax.
What is falling action?
200
Obstacles in our thinking
What are roadblocks?
200
Prose about imaginary characters and events
What is fiction?
200
Doesn't express a complete thought. Ex.: As they explored.
What is a fragment?
200
Expresses an action, condition, or state of being
What is a verb?
300
The author's introduction to the characters, setting, and situation
What is the exposition?
300
Checking something over before you choose it.
What is previewing?
300
The hero in the story
What is the protagonist?
300
Doesn't separate thoughts correctly. Ex.: The team played hard the entire game they won in overtime.
What is a run-on sentence?
300
a word used to join words or a group of words
What is a conjunction?
400
The part of the plot following the falling action that reveals or suggests the outcome.
What is the resolution?
400
Asking how, what, when, and where
What is questioning?
400
When the author gives clues or hints about what is going to happen
What is foreshadowing?
400
When two or more independent clauses are joined together Ex.: The children planted the garden, and I helped them take care of it.
What is a compound sentence?
400
Modifies or describes nouns and pronouns
What is an adjective?
500
The part of the plot that adds complications
What is the rising action?
500
Thinking about our thinking
What is metacognition?
500
A fictional story based in a period of time that actually occured
What is historical fiction?
500
Expresses a complete thought. Ex.: Many people travel.
What is an independent clause or sentence?
500
Shows the relationship between a noun, a pronoun or another word in a sentence
What is a preposition?
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