Parts of a Story
The definition is....
Fiction
Vocabulary
Strategies
100
All stories are written with this in mind including rising action, climax, and falling action.
What is plot
100
To renew the strength and energy of.
What is revitalize?
100
Authors sometimes includes this hidden message or lesson in their stories.
What is theme?
100
Actual statements in long term memory (words)
What is lingustic?
100
To paraphrase the main idea details and ideas in a passage in brief form, leaving out unimportant details.
What is summary?
200
These are based on the actions and words of the characters.
What is character traits?
200
An idea that is communicated indirectly.
What is implication?
200
Good readers believe in themselves and read with this.
What is confidence?
200
Expressed clearly in a few words.
What is succinct?
200
Words, and sentences around an unknown word that give you hints on the meaning.
What is context clues?
300
These are the animals or people in the story.
What is character?
300
Something that discourages or prevents a certain action.
What is deterrent?
300
Good readers develop these by using clues from the text and their schema.
What is inferencing?
300
Injustice, unfairness, an instance of injustice.
What is inequity?
300
An educated guess based on evidence in the text and what you already know.
What is inference or drawing conclusion?
400
The turning point or the most exciting point in a story.
What is climax?
400
Based on personal opinions, feelings, and attitudes.
What is subjective?
400
Good readers use this strategy to give them a purpose for reading. It is used before you begin to read, while they are reading and after reading.
What is pre-reading/questioning?
400
A new custom, method, or invention.
What is innovation?
400
Various ways of manipulating and placing text to draw attention to or emphasize certain points or ideas in narrative.
What is text features?
500
(1) Hinting at events that will happen later in the story, (2) a look back to events that happened earlier in the story or in the past.
What is (1) foreshadowing (2) flashback
500
A physical weakness or defect?
What is infirmity?
500
Good readers is this strategy when they use the words they just read to create a picture in their minds.
What is visual?
500
Mental pictures or physical sensations such as smell, taste, touch, kinesthetic association and sound.
What is non lingustic?
500
The type of writing found in poerty creates images by using these. They are usually written with the words like or as.
What is simile?
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