Parts of Speech
This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
This is the main message or lesson of a story.
What is the theme?
This punctuation ends a declarative sentence.
What is a period?
This is what you call the person telling the story.
What is the narrator?
A word that means the same as another word.
What is a synonym?
This part of speech describes an action or state of being.
What is a verb?
A struggle between opposing forces in a story.
What is conflict?
This punctuation is used to show possession or in contractions.
What is an apostrophe?
These are the people or animals that take part in the story’s action.
What are characters?
The word part at the beginning of a word that can change its meaning.
What is a prefix?
This part of speech modifies a noun or pronoun
What is an adjective?
When an author gives hints about what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
This word connects two independent clauses with a comma.
What is a coordinating conjunction?
The writer writes to inform, entertain, or persuade.
What is author's purpose?
The suggested or emotional meaning of a word beyond its dictionary definition.
What is connotation?
This word connects words, phrases, or clauses of equal weight
What is a coordinanting conjunction?
The portion of the plot that builds tension and suspense, leading towards the climax
This punctuation mark is used to separate items in a list.
What is a comma?
the transformation or growth a character experiences throughout a story, from their initial state to their ending state
What is character arc?
hints within a text that help a reader understand the meaning of unfamiliar words
What are context clues?
This part of speech shows how one noun is related to another noun in the sentence
What is preposition?
We use these devices to persuade our reader to side with our claim.
What is rhetorical devices?
Punctuation mark to separate a dependent clause from an independent clause if it comes at the beginning of the sentence.
What is a comma?
The perspective from which a story is told that knows all emotions of all characters
What is omniscient third-person point of view?
The two words to define inference.
What is an educated guess?