Story Elements
Figurative Language & Sensory Details
Author's Tools
Traditional Literature and Mythology
Main Idea & Theme
100
The place and time period in which a story takes place?
What is setting?
100
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
The person telling the story
Who is the speaker?
100
Old stories that have been known in cultures for a long time
What is traditional literature?
100
The most important idea of a text
What is main idea?
200
The physical and personality traits of a character
What is characterization?
200
A direct comparison NOT using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
200
The words that the characters speak in a text
What is dialogue?
200
Stories that explain the origin and history of a people.
What is mythology?
200
Details from the text that support the main idea
What are supporting details?
300
The events that happen in the story
What is plot?
300
Details in the text that appeal to the reader's five senses
What are sensory details?
300
How the story feels
What is tone?
300
"Where the Red Fern Grows"
What is an example of traditional literature?
300
The deeper understanding of how the main idea applies to life (i.e., the life lesson)
What is theme?
400
The problem the character(s) must face in the story
What is conflict?
400
Giving human qualities, feelings, actions, and/or characteristics to an inanimate object
What is personification?
400
The details about things without using the words that people speak
What is description?
400
"Hercules"
What is an example of mythology?
400
The main idea and the theme can be stated within the text or _______.
What is implied?
500
The main character (_______) must solve a problem caused by another character (________).
What is protagonist and antagonist?
500
Using exaggeration for emphasis or effect
What is a hyperbole?
500
First-person and third-person
What is narration?
500
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
What is an example of traditional literature?
500
The theme of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"
What is "Don't lie"?
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