Parts of a story
What is the setting?
What is a simile?
A completely true story or an informational text.
What is non-fiction?
The reason why the teacup in "Scarlet Stockings Spy" was important to Maddy Rose.
What is it was given to her by her father who died in the war?
This part of our Harris organizer is where we take a quote directly from the text and put it into our writing.
What is evidence?
This part of a story is when the story is ending and all of the problems have been solved.
This type of figurative language uses sound words like "BOOM" and "POW" that are written like they sound.
What is an onomatopoeia?
A story that has real events that happened at some point in the past but also has made-up elements like characters or a plot.
What is historical fiction?
The three stages of the water cycle
What is evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
This point of view is when a narrator who is not in the story describes what characters in the story are doing.
What is third person?
This part of a story is the most intense and exciting part, typically towards the middle of the story. It is also known as "the turning point".
What is the climax?
Figurative language is used in this sentence: The classroom was a zoo with children screaming everywhere and papers all over the floor.
What is a metaphor?
This genre of stories is written differently, as it has stage directions and character tags for when they are speaking.
What is a drama?
What is to warn the people of Pompeii that the volcano was going to erupt.
This is another word for the problem in a story.
What is conflict?
These parts of a story have the same second word, but one is leading towards the most exciting part and one is leading towards the end of the story.
What are the rising and falling action?
This type of figurative language is often used in poetry and helps the reader picture things in their mind as they are reading.
What is imagery?
This genre of stories usually involves gods, monsters, and other supernatural elements that try to explain how things originated.
What is a myth?
This type of rock is formed when things like sand, dust, and mud pile up and over time are squeezed together from pressure to form a solid rock.
What are sedimentary rocks?
This is the form of (their, there, they're) that means belonging to someone.
What is their?
Draw and label the plot diagram.
Teacher response
Figurative language is used in this sentence: The sun was smiling down on them as they laid on the beach.
What is personification?
This is the difference between a biography and an autobiography.
What is an autobiography is written by the person the story is about?
In "The Carp" this inspires a young painter to never give up and keep persevering.
What is seeing a carp try over and over again to get a cracker.
This word is the adjective in this sentence: The man quietly snuck around the room so that the spies didn't hear him.
What is quietly?