Story Elements
This element tells the reader where and when the story takes place.
What is the setting?
This is a short title or description found directly underneath a photo or illustration that explains what the image is showing.
What is a caption?
A comparison between two unlike things that uses the words "like" or "as"—such as "busy as a bee"—is known as this.
What is a simile?
This part of speech takes the place of a noun, using words like he, she, it, or they.
What is a pronoun?
If you describe your absolute favorite weekend day as "awesome," and your friend describes it as "fantastic," your two choices of words are examples of these—words that have the same or similar meanings.
What are synonyms?
This is the main character in a story, often the "hero" that the audience roots for.
What is the protagonist?
When an author wants a specific word to pop out at you, they might make the lines thicker and darker, using this specific formatting style.
What is bold print (or boldface)?
This type of comparison says one thing is another thing without using "like" or "as"—such as "time is money."
What is a metaphor?
This punctuation mark is placed at the very end of a sentence to show strong emotion, excitement, or a shout.
What is an exclamation point?
"Pepperoni is the greatest pizza topping in human history." Because this statement expresses a personal belief or feeling that cannot be proven true with a statistic, it is this type of statement.
What is an opinion?
This is the character or force that opposes the main character, often acting as the "villain."
What is the antagonist?
If a history textbook organizes information by listing dates and events in the exact order they happened, it is using this text structure.
What is chronological order? (Also accept: sequential order)
Words that mean the exact same thing, or almost the same thing—like "huge" and "gigantic"—are called this.
What are synonyms?
Days of the week, months of the year, and specific names of people are all examples of this type of noun, which must always start with a capital letter.
What is a proper noun?
In the sentence, "I wanted to go to the mall with my friends, but I had to finish my chores first," the bolded word is this part of speech used to connect ideas.
What is a conjunction?
This is the lesson, moral, or big message about life that the author wants the reader to take away from the story.
What is the theme?
If you are reading a book about dogs and want to quickly find every page that mentions "Golden Retrievers," you would look at this alphabetical list at the very back of the book.
What is the index?
Phrases like "break a leg" or "it's raining cats and dogs" are examples of this, where the phrase means something totally different than the literal words.
What is an idiom?
In the sentence, "The fluffy cat slept on the rug," the word fluffy is this part of speech because it describes the noun.
What is an adjective?
The phrase "Friday's Favorite Friends" repeats the same "F" sound at the beginning of each word, making it an example of this poetic device.
What is alliteration?
Unlike a dynamic character who changes, this type of character stays exactly the same from the beginning of the story to the end.
What is a static character?
This type of text feature is a drawing or diagram that breaks down the parts of an object, usually including lines pointing to text labels.
What is a labeled diagram?
This term refers to the dictionary definition of a word, rather than the emotional feeling the word gives you.
What is denotation?
This punctuation mark is used to show ownership, like in the phrase "the student's desk," or to form a contraction like "can't."
What is an apostrophe?
If you are talking about a video game console that belongs to all of your friends as a group, you would write it as "my friends' console." This punctuation mark is placed after the "s" to show that something belongs to more than one person.
What is an apostrophe?