Let me tell you a story...
Putting pen to paper...or fingers to keyboards?
Plot Structure
Don't be so literal!
Key Terms
100
The time and place where the events of a story take place.
What is the setting
100

The very first step in the writing process in which brainstorming, graphic organization, and research take place

What is planning

100
The moment of highest drama and tension in a narrative, in which the main conflict is confronted fully.
What is the climax
100
A type of speech or writing that breaks away from the literal meaning in order to create a special effect or meaning.
What is figurative language
100

provide precise details and specific identifying information that give the readers something solid to imagine as they read

What is concrete language

200
The process that involves letting a reader know who the people in the story are and what they are like.
What is character development
200
This is the second step in the writing process in which the first or rough draft is created.
What is writing or drafting
200

The first part of a story arc where the setting is established and characters are introduced.

What is the exposition/introduction

200
A comparison that is made between two unrelated things using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile
200

details that describe for readers how things look, sound, smell, taste, and feel so that readers can imagine the experience as if they were there

What are sensory details

300

The central struggle or tension within a narrative that shapes the plot and drives the action forward.

What is conflict/problem

300
This is the third step in the writing process in which the writer rereads what he or she has written in the rough draft, gets feedback from others, and makes changes to ideas, organization, voice, word choice, and sentence fluency.
What is revising
300
The point in the story arc where the main conflict is introduced and the tension begins to build.
What is the rising action
300
A comparison that is made between two unrelated things that does not use the words "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor
300

of or relating to the central character of a story; also, a pop culture term most often used to described someone who steals the spotlight

What is the main character

400
The angle or perspective from which a story is told.
What is point-of-view
400

This is the fourth step in the writing process in which the writer checks and corrects all errors in conventions, including spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and grammar.

What is revising or editing

400
The point in the story arc where the characters have faced the main conflict and events begin falling into place.
What is the falling action
400

DAILY DOUBLE/CHALLENGE: A figure of speech in which human characteristics are given to an animal or an object. (Example: "The wind whispered through the window.")

What is personification

400

Tell a story about real events or imagined experiences. They can be told from a first person (I/me/my) or third person (he/she/they) point of view

What is a narrative

500
A main idea or message that is presented by the author in various ways throughout a narrative.
What is theme
500
This is the fifth and final step in the writing process in which the written work is prepared in its final form and presented to the teacher and/or class for evaluation.
What is publishing
500

The final step in the story arc in which all loose ends of the narrative are tied up and the story concludes.

What is the resolution or conclusion

500

a phrase where the meaning of each word separately does not tell the reader what the idiom means;  the words in the phrase mean something more than each word in it.

What is an idiom

500

when quoting a text, the events happening in the story is referred to as the 

What is context

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