Elements of Fiction
Writing Process
Stages of Plot
Grammar/Mechanics
Narrative Techniques/Random
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, research, and planning take place.
What is prewriting
100
The moment of highest drama and tension in a narrative, in which the main conflict is confronted fully.
What is the climax?
100
The word we use to remember the types of errors we should be looking for when editing our writing.
What is CUPS?
100
Give me one word to describe my sense of humor.
What is corny?
200
The process that involves letting a reader know who the people in the story are and what they are like.
What is characterization?
200
This is the second step in the writing process in which you take the ideas from the prewriting stage and begin to write about them in full sentences and paragraphs.
What is drafting?
200
The first part of a story where the setting is established and characters are introduced.
What is the exposition or introduction?
200
Name one rule for formatting dialogue.
What is creating a new paragraph every time a different character speaks, using quotation marks to surround the exact words a character is speaking, putting a comma inside the quotation marks to separate the character's specific words from the dialogue take, OR start a new paragraph when the dialogue is complete and the story goes back to narration.
200
A way to make a scene in our story feel slower for the reader?
What is write more specific details?
300
The central struggle or tension within a narrative that shapes the plot and drives the action forward.
What is conflict
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 where the tension begins to build in the story.
What is the rising action?
300
This sentence is... (complete, fragment, or run-on) A lot of students tried the tea at the Colonial tea party they ate a lot of food it was a good time.
What is run-on?
300
The name of my cat.
What is Boots?
400
The sequence of events in a story.
What is plot?
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 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
This sentence is... (complete, fragment, run-on) After making buffalo chicken dip on Sunday, Mrs. Foster made potato soup.
What is complete?
400
Name 2 strategies for showing versus telling in our writing.
What is 1. Use active verbs to show what’s happening. 2. Use the exact words a character spoke 3. Show the feelings of a character by what he does. 4. Paint pictures with specific words or groups of words.
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 storyin which all loose ends of the narrative are tied up and the conflict it ended.
What is the resolution, conclusion, or denouement?
500
Add the missing comma(s) to this sentence: In the middle of class an earthquake struck.
What is: In the middle of class, an earthquake struck.
500
The distinct personality, style, or point of view present in a piece of writing.
What is voice?
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