Have you lost the plot?
Author's Toolbox
Fish Out of Water and other Idioms
I Did Not
Mean It Literally!
It's Just a Figure of Speech
100

Plan of action for a story, play or movie.

What is plot?

100

A diagram or drawing which helps you organize your ideas on paper.

What is Graphic Organizer?

100
I've got my head in the clouds.

What is daydreaming or not paying attention?

100

My aunt is just as sweet as pie.

What is a simile?

100

We found it under a blanket of sand.

What is a metaphor?

200

The struggle between the opposing forces in a story.

What is conflict?

200

The "high point" of a story.

What is Climax of a Plot?

200

I have a frog in my throat.

What is having a hoarse voice?

200

For breakfast, I made bacon that sizzled and my cereal made a lot of snaps, crackles and pops.

What is Onomatopoeia?

200

I am so hungry, I could eat a horse!

What is hyperbole?

300

The Five Stages of Plot Development.

What are Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution.

300

When an author refers back to an event that has already taken place.

What is Flashback?

300

Don't cry over spilled milk!

What is stay calm or Don't stress about it?

300

What would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck would?

What is Alliteration?

300

My phone is not cooperating with me today!

What is Personification?

400

Any written work that tells a story, such as a short story, a novel, or a play.

What is a Narrative?
400

Using words to be ironic.

What is Verbal Irony?

400

You are the apple of my eye.

What is you mean more to me than anyone else?

400

Treat others the way you want to be treated.

What is an example of a Proverb?

400

Good night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite.

What is Assonance?

500

The moment when the conflict is introduced in a story.

What is the Inciting Incident?

500

The pronouns used when an author writes in Third Person Point of View.

What are he, she, and they?

500

I don't like it when the builder cuts corners!

What is doing work by skipping steps to get it done quickly or with less cost?
500

The day before Cinco De Mayo, we greet each other by saying "May the Fourth be with You."

What is an Allusion?

500

 “I hit the keys with my fist, and the piano broke into / a hundred pieces”

What is imagery?

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