Characters in a story
The person telling the story.
What is the narrator?
a person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work.
What is a character?
to show the order in which something is done/happened
What is sequence or chronological?
The way the passage makes you feel.
What is mood?
The view from which a story is being told.
What is point of view?
The time and place of the action in a literary work.
What is the setting?
A text structure that describes a problem and how it can be fixed or solved.
What is problem and solution?
Important information that tells the overall idea of a paragraph or section of a text.
What is the main idea?
The main character of the novel.
What is the protagonist?
The sequence of events in a literary work.
What is the plot?
To compare the similarities and differences between two topics.
What is compare and contrast?
A story device that interrupts the plot of the story to recreate an incident of an earlier time?
What is flashback?
A main opponent or enemy of the protagonist. Not all stories will have one.
What is an antagonist?
A struggle between opposing forces.
What is conflict?
To show how one event causes another event; to give reasons or motivation for an action
What is cause and effect?
"The boy ran like the wind" is an example of what literary term?
What is a simile?
Making an evidence-based conclusion after reading a passage or section of text.
What is an inference?
The main message that the author is trying to get across through the story.
What is theme?
The author provides several details of something to give the reader a mental picture
What is description?
"Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly" is an example of what literary term?
What is metaphor?