Story Elements
The time and place of a story
A. Climax
B. Problem
C. Setting
What is setting?
The repeating of similar sounds, usually consonants, at the beginning of words
A. Alliteration
B. Simile
What is alliteration?
A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence
A. adverb
B. noun
C. verb
What is a verb?
dis, mis, un, uni, tri, sub, semi, re, pre, non, multi
A. Suffix
B. prefix
What is a prefix?
To look at and take note of the illustrations and text
A. conclusion
B. preview
C. Summary
What is to preview?
people and animals in a story
A. Setting
B. Characters
C. Conflict
What are characters?
An excessive overstatement or exaggeration of fact
A. Hyperbole
B. Simile
What is hyperbole?
People, places, things, or ideas
A. Noun
B. verb
C. adjective
What is a noun?
able, aholic, ant, cide, dom, ed, er
A. suffix
B. prefix
What is a suffix?
To use the information that you read and the illustrations to guess what will take place in a story
A. Predict
B. Conclusion
C. Summary
What is predict?
The events and conflict that occur in a story
A. Climax
B. Plot
C. Setting
What is plot?
A common expression that has acquired a meaning that differs from its literal meaning
A. Hyperbole
B. Idiom
What is an idiom?
Describes or modifies a person, place, thing, or idea in the sentence
A. Adjective
B. Noun
C. verb
What is an adjective?
The base word without prefixes or suffixes
A. tree word
B. root word
What is a root word?
What the story or paragraph is mostly about.
A. Setting
B. Characters
C. Main Idea
What is main idea?
The problems or challenges that the characters must face or overcome in the story
A. conflict
B. plot
C. setting
What is conflict?
The comparison of one thing to another that does not use the terms “like” or “as"
A. Metaphor
B. Simile
What is a metaphor?
A word that takes the place of a noun
A. Proper noun
B. pronoun
C. plural noun
What is a pronoun?
Books, toys, peaches, men, oxen, women, foxes, daises
A. plural nouns
B. proper nouns
C. irregular nouns
What are examples of plural words?
The why and what of events
A. Cause and effect
B. Plot
What is cause and effect?
An idea leading to the moral of the story
A. Lesson
B. Theme
C. Resolution
What is the theme?
The use of human characteristics to describe animals, things, or ideas
A. Metaphor
B. personification
What is personification?
A word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb, answers the questions: how, when where, to what extent
A. noun
B. adverb
C. adjective
What is an adverb?
Young-old, loud-quiet, big-little, tall-short, few-many
A. synonyms
B. antonyms
C. homophones
What are antonyms?
a conclusion or opinion that is formed using known facts, and details of a story
A. Theme
B. Inference
C. Introduction
What is inference?