Compare and Contrast
Plot Elements
Theme
Inference
Miscellaneous
100

To find what is the same between two or more things. 

What is compare?
100

The main problem in a story.

What is conflict?

100

The moral, lesson, or message of a story.

What is theme?

100
A conclusion or assumption that is drawn.

What is an inference?

100

A statement about yourself, or about yourself and someone else. "I" "Me" "We" "Us" pronouns. 

What is first person?

200

To find what is different between two or more things.

What is contrast? 
200
The solution to the main problem in a story.

What is resolution?

200
A brief recall of what happened in a story.

What is a summary?

200

What you see + what you know = what you infer

What is the inference equation?

200

a narrative perspective in which the narrator describes the events in the story without being a part of the story themselves.

Third person point of view

300

A person or thing that is personified in a story.

What are characters? 

300

The turning point in a story.

What is climax?

300

So clear in statement that there is no doubt about the meaning. 

What is explicit?

300

A girl sits with 3 other girls at lunch but can't remember their names.

Is the girl a new student?
300

 the reader is part of the story. "You" pronoun is used.

What is second person point of view?

400

The time and place in a story

What is setting?

400

The events leading to the resolution.

What is falling action?
400

Kindness, caring, friendship, helpful, family, etc.

What is theme category? 

400
Something used to support your argument or claim.

What is evidence?

400

the POV that uses a narrator with access to only one character's perspective, a limited perspective.

What is third person limited?

500

To study something closely and carefully

What does it mean to analyze?
500
The beginning of a story.

What is exposition?

500

Something that is understood but not clearly put into words. 

What is implicit?

500

To repeat someone else's words completely and give credit to that person.

What is quote?

500

When a narrator shows us what many characters in the story are thinking and feeling

What is third person omniscient? 

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