Story Elements
Literary Devices
Grammar
Vocabulary
Nonfiction
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 that states an action

What is a verb?

100
dis, mis, un, uni, tri, sub, semi, re, pre, non, multi
What is a prefix?
100

the words underneath pictures to describe the picture

What are captions?

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

A story written about a person, not by that person

biography

300

The events  that happen in a story

What is plot?

300

a comparison using "like" or "as"

What is an simile?

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

A line that organizes events chronologically

timeline

400
The struggle the characters go through.

What is problem or  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

A text structure that gives what happened and why it happened.

What is cause and effect?

500

The moral of the story, a message the author is trying to communicate

What is the theme?

500
The use of human characteristics to describe animals, things, or ideas
What is personification?
500
A specific person, place, or thing

What is an proper noun?

500
Young-old, loud-quiet, big-little, tall-short, few-many
What are antonyms?
500

The order and names of chapters, usually found at the beginning of a book.

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