Story Elements
Literary Devices
Grammar
Vocabulary
What's the Word
100
The time and place of a story
What is setting?
100
The repeating of similar sounds, usually consonants, at the beginning of words
What is alliteration?
100
A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence
What is a verb?
100
dis, mis, un, uni, tri, sub, semi, re, pre, non, multi
What is a prefix?
100

I'm going there _____

to or too

What is too?

200
people and animals in a story
What are characters?
200
Words that sound like what they mean

What is onomatopoeia?

200
People, places, things, or ideas
What is a noun?
200
able, aholic, ant, cide, dom, ed, er
What is a suffix?
200

_________ rude!

your or you're

What is you're?

300
The events and conflict that occur in a story
What is plot?
300

A comparison that uses "like" or "as"

What is a simile?

300
Describes or modifies a person, place, thing, or idea in the sentence
What is an adjective?
300

cold-freezing, hot-boiling, angry-mad, up-above, down-below

What are synonyms?

300

The dog picked up _____ bone.

its or it's

What is its?

400
The problems or challenges that the characters must face or overcome in the story
What is conflict?
400
The comparison of one thing to another that does not use the terms “like” or “as"
What is a metaphor?
400
A word that takes the place of a noun
What is a pronoun?
400
Books, toys, peaches, men, oxen, women, foxes, daises
What are examples of plural words?
400

He's eating lunch over _______.

their, there or they're

What is there?

500

The lesson or moral of the story

What is the theme?

500
The use of human characteristics to describe animals, things, or ideas
What is personification?
500
A word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb, answers the questions: how, when where, to what extent
What is an adverb?
500
Young-old, loud-quiet, big-little, tall-short, few-many
What are antonyms?
500

I have to decide _______ or not to eat at Taco Bell.

whether or weather

What is whether?

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