Compare and Contrast Characters, Setting, Plot
Plot Elements
Theme
Point of View
Inference
100

To find what is the same between two or more things

What is compare?

100

The events leading to the climax.

What is rising action?
100

The moral, lesson, or message in a story.

What is theme?

100

The author uses one character to tell the story through their own personal experiences, feelings, and opinions. The narrator is the character in the story. "I" "Me" "We" "Us" pronouns.

What is first person?

100

A conclusion or assumption that is drawn.

What is an inference?

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

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

What is third person point of view?

200

What you see + what you know = what you infer

What is the inference equation?

300

A person or thing that is personified in a story.

What is a character?

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

 The narrator is speaking to the reader and making the reader part of the story. "You" pronoun is used.

What is second person point of view?

300

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

Is the girl a new student?

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

The Point of view that uses a narrator with access to only one character's perspective, thoughts, and feelings.

What is third person limited?

400

Something used to support your argument or claim.

What is evidence?

500

The series of events that make up the narrative, and how those events are presented.

What is plot?

500

The main problem in a story and what are the four types of this element?

What is conflict?

What is person vs. person?

What is person vs. nature?

What is person vs. self?

What is person vs. society?

500

Something that is understood but not clearly put into words.

What is implicit?

500

When a narrator shows/tells us what more than one character's perspective, thoughts, and feelings. The narrator is all knowing. 

What is third person omniscient?

500

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

What is a quote?

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