Plot
Say What?
It's All About the People
Recent Learning
Potpourri
100
Time and place
What is setting?
100
Comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
100
The person telling a story
What is a narrator?
100
The author writes so the reader can have fun
What is to entertain?
100
Another term for central idea
What is main idea?
200
The problem in a story
What is the conflict?
200
The leaves danced in the wind.
What is personification?
200
The author directly tells you about a character
What is direct characterization?
200
A commercial is an example of this type of writing
What is to persuade?
200
A life lesson
What is theme?
300
The turning point or the moment of the most suspense in a story
What is the climax?
300
The sun is a giant lightbulb.
What is a metaphor?
300
Two characters in a conflict with each other
What is character v. character?
300
The narrator is in the story
What is first person point of view?
300
Text clues + the reader's background knowledge
What is an inference?
400
The end of a story
What is the resolution?
400
Repeated consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
400
The reader has to make an inference about the character
What is indirect characterization?
400
The narrator isn't in the story and knows the thoughts and feelings of only one character
What is third person limited point of view?
400
A conflict between a character and a bear
What is character versus nature?
500
The event that moves the story from exposition into rising action
What is the inciting incident?
500
Comparison of two things that focuses on their similarities
What is an analogy?
500
A character is in a conflict with a group of people
What is character versus society?
500
The narrator isn't a character in the story and knows the thoughts and feelings of all
What is third person omniscient?
500
An object represents something else
What is symbolism?
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