Story Elements
Literary Devices
Grammar
Vocabulary
Reading
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

Something written word-for-word from a piece of writing. This is done using exact words, quotation marks, and noting what page/paragraph you read the information on. 

What is direct quote?

200
people and animals in a story
What are characters?
200
An excessive overstatement or exaggeration of fact
What is hyperbole?
200
People, places, things, or ideas
What is a noun?
200
able, aholic, ant, cide, dom, ed, er
What is a suffix?
200

Hints found in surrounding text. These almost act as puzzle pieces when you are trying to figure out the meaning of a vocabulary word or conceptualize a piece of writing. A common acronym for this is IDEAS. 

What are context clues?

300
The events and conflict that occur in a story
What is plot?
300
A common expression that has acquired a meaning that differs from its literal meaning
What is an idiom?
300
Describes or modifies a person, place, thing, or idea in the sentence
What is an adjective?
300
The base word without prefixes or suffixes
What is a root word?
300

What the story or paragraph is mostly about.

What is main idea?

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

The organizational pattern an author uses to arrange information, shaping how ideas are groups, connected, and presented to readers (e.g. compare and contrast)

What is text structure?

500
An idea leading to the 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

A logical conclusion made by context clues. This is not explicitly stated in the text but formed based on background knowledge. 

What is inference?

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