ELEMENTS OF A SHORT STORY
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
WRITING FORMATS
IDIOMS
GENRE
100
The people in the story
What is character?
100
Uses the word like or as.
What is a simile?
100
The structure for an opinion response.
What is O.R.E.O.?
100
Break a leg.
What is good luck?
100
Story that is based on facts, real people, or events.
What is nonfiction?
200
The place the story takes place.
What is the setting?
200
Uses the word is.
What is a metaphor?
200
The structure for a narrative.
What is S.T.O.R.Y.?
200
To pig out.
What is eat a lot?
200
Story with fictional characters and events in a historical setting.
What is historical fiction?
300
The problem that occurs in the story.
What is conflict?
300
The use of a letter repeating itself.
What is alliteration?
300
The structure for restating a question.
What is P.Q.A.?
300
A piece of cake.
What is very easy?
300
Story that is true to life
What is realistic fiction?
400
The way a problem is solved.
What is a resolution?
400
The way a word sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
The structure for an informative piece.
What is I.B.S.?
400
It costs an arm and leg.
What is very expensive?
400
Piece of writing that exhibits meter, rhyme, and stanza.
What is a poem?
500
The overlying message of the story.
What is the theme?
500
Giving an object human features.
What is personification?
500
The structure for answering a short answer.
What is R.A.C.E.?
500
Hold your horses
What is wait a minute?
500
Form of literature intended for theater.
What is a play?
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