This is the place and when a story takes place
What is the setting?
This uses LIKE to make a comparison
What is a simile?
What is the rising action?
Opposite of literal language
What is Figurative language?
"That boy ran fast as lightning."
"Christy is late!" is an example of this.
You got to be FAST AS LIGHTNING to win this game.
What is a metaphor?
Gasp! We've reached the top and boy is it tense.
What is the climax?
Stanza, lines
Patterns and rhymes.
These are the parts of this foundation of poems.
What is Poetic Structure?
"Her hair smelled of apple pie and Autumn air."
Her hair smelled sweet/ Her hair smelled clean
I would love to tell you a story, I am your _____.
Who is the narrator?
The sun beat with force of 1000 suns. This is a _______.
What is a hyperbole?
Victor, Teresa, Michael and Mr. Bueller all meet at the school to start us off in this part of the plot structure.
What is the exposition?
Tell me how you really feel. This is how an author wants the poem to feel.
"The cave yawned on for miles."
The cave was deep/ The cave went on forever/ The cave was wide.
This needs 5 parts to tell the whole story.
What is the plot?
The frogs screaming across the pond woke the neighbors.
What is personification?
Glad that's over! We've reached this point on the plot structure.
What is the Resolution?
Why so serious? This is the how our speaker sounds in our poem.
What is Tone?
Roxy watched the cake like a hawk.
She never took her eye off the cake./ She never looked away.
A story might have a main one but there can always be more.
Who are characters?
August was a gust of wind in our school year.
What is a metaphor?
Easy does it! Let's start wrapping up our story during this part of the plot structure.
What is falling action?
Be a reading detective and find this to support your thoughts.
What is text evidence?
The cold froze my bones.
It was very cold.