Story Arc
This part of the story arc is the emotional high point of the story.
What is a climax?
This part of speech is a physical or mental action or a word that links a noun to another noun.
What is a verb?
This narrative technique is used to move between events, ideas, and topics.
What are transitional words and phrases?
In a summary, a T.A.G. sentence includes this, the author, and the genre.
What is a title?
This type of figurative language is a direct comparison of two unlike things without using the words like or as.
What is a metaphor?
This part of the story arc is the background information readers need to know to understand the story.
What is exposition?
This part of speech describes or modifies a noun.
What is a adjective?
This narrative technique shows us what a character is thinking.
What is internal monologue?
In a summary, the first sentence has to include this, along with a central idea.
What is TAG?
"The red letter F on my test glared at me," is an example of this kind of figurative language.
What is personification?
This part of the story arc is something you need to have a story.
What is a conflict?
This part of speech describes a verb, adjective, or even another one of itself by answering, "How? When? Where? How often? To what extent?"
What is a adverb?
When using dialogue, you put this around the part that is spoken.
What are quotation marks?
A summary must be written like this, without any personal opinion or judgement.
What is objectively?
This figurative language strategy is when you use the words "like" or "as" to compare two unlike things that share a similarity.
What is a simile?
This part of the story arc can get more intense over time.
What is rising action?
This type of verb teaches you something about the noun.
What is a linking verb?
One way to make this more interesting is to drop the speaker tag (after establishing speakers).
What is dialogue?
A summary must include this, no minor details, in the same order they appear in the text.
What are key ideas?
This type of figurative language can sometimes be used with similes and metaphors, like in this sentence: "He is as skinny as a toothpick!"
What is a hyperbole?
This part of the story arc is not always explicitly written out, and is often a reflection of the events that occurred.
What is a resolution?
This type of noun names things that cannot be physically touched, like ideas, concepts, and emotions.
What is a abstract noun?
This type of internal monologue is when the narrator is talking to the audience. (Like a diary entry)
What is indirect internal monologue?
This summary technique is when you use your own words instead of copying the text.
What is originality?
Both similes and metaphors fall into this category of figurative language.
What are comparisons?