GAPS
T&M
Main Idea & Detail
Summary
Fiction
100

It's the first thing used/done.

What is Genre?

100

What the author feels.

What is Tone?

100

Your go-to structure (usually with NF).

MI&D

100

A short version of a story, but it still includes all the important details.

What is Summary?

100

A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them.

What is Analogy?

200

The reason why the author wrote the story.

What is Author's Purpose?
200

What you, as the reader, feel.

Mood

200

The Box part in Boxes & Bullets.

What is Main Idea?

200

Summarizing Non-Fiction.

What are Boxes and Bullets/5 W's/CAKE, etc?

200

A problem that takes place inside a character's mind or heart.

What is Internal Conflict?

300

The view of the story.

What is Point of View?

300

Ridiculous.

What is Absurd?

300

The Bullets part in Boxes & Bullets.

What are Details?

300

Summarizing Fiction.

What is Plot Mountain?

300

An additional plot contained within the main plot of a story.

What are Subplots?

400

How the story is built.

What is Structure?

400

Treating someone as if they were stupid.

What is Condensending?

400

The whole purpose of the writing.

MI

400

Summarizing Poetry.

What is Peace Map?

400

A fallacy in which the writer repeats the claim as a way to provide evidence.

What is Circular Reasoning?

500

The first step in--

PQRST

500

Showing an exaggerated opinion of someone's importance.

What is Arrogant?

500

Support.

Details

500

Summary strategy.

What is PQRST?

500

A plot that has a distinctive beginning, middle, and end, and is composed of five identifiable parts: introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.

What is Linear Plot?

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