Story Elements &
Text Features
Text Features
These two characters are (1) the main character of a story who grows and changes and (2) the character or environmental feature that stands in the way of the main character getting what they want or accomplishing their goal.
Who / What are the protagonist and antagonist?
The word "damage" as it is used in passage 1, paragraph 4 means this.
What is "to cause harm to"?
What is "If you help a friend in need, that friend might help you one day"?
This is another word for the start of a story that establishes the original normal, everyday lives of the characters, as well as the story's setting.
What is the introduction?
What is the exposition?
This is the term for language choices that evoke the 5 senses, and show as opposed to tell, bringing stories and poems alive for readers.
What is sensory language?
These are little titles before paragraphs within a passage, usually used for non-fiction.
What are headings?
In paragraph 7 of Passage 1, this is the meaning of:
"A friend in need is a friend indeed."
What is "someone who helps you when you're in need is a true friend."
This sentence from Passage 1 best supports the lesson of the fable:
A) “Even though he was very proud, Maple Tree called to his animal friends, ‘Please help me!’”
B) “‘I could claw at your bark with my long, sharp claws, but that would hurt you.’”
C) “The following spring, there was not enough rain for all the animals to drink.”
D) “He was delighted to help the friend who had helped him in his own time of need.”
What is D?
This is the biggest, most exciting part of the story, the biggest conflict: it is also the story's turning point.
What is the climax?
This is the word for the type of figurative language that the following sentence displays:
Her fingers trembled like the tiniest twigs of a windswept tree.
What is a simile?
This is the name for where and when a story takes place?
What is the setting?
The list below shows the steps in making maple syrup, based on Passage 2.
Number the steps 1–5 in correct order.
a) Sap flows through tubes into a big tub.
b) Sap is boiled in an evaporator.
c) Taps are placed in maple trees.
d) Syrup is heated and bottled or canned.
e) Syrup is poured through a filter.
What is:
1 = c
2 = a
3 = b
4 = e
5 = d ?
Which detail is in both “The Maple Tree with an Itch” and “Hard Work, but Worth It”?
A) Maple sap contains water.
B) Insects can damage maple trees.
C) Maple syrup comes in three grades.
D) Woodpeckers have sharp, thin beaks.
What is A?
These are the TWO parts of the story that lead to and from the climax, usually involving smaller conflicts along the way.
What are the rising action and falling action?
This is a type of figurative language that purposely exaggerates to make a point.
What is hyperbole?
This is a piece of information that is added by the picture after Passage 1.
What is HOW woodpeckers drink maple sap? They stick their beaks far inside trees they have pecked holes into in order to drink the maple sap.
What is "make free from harmful elements"?
Passage 1 and Passage 2 are different in this way:
What is A?
This is the end of a story in which the protagonist establishes a new normal, usually after returning home.
What is the conclusion?
What is the resolution?
I never saw a Purple Cow,
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I’d rather see than be one!
The rhythm in this poem is called this.
What is the meter?
This is the name for a text feature that is like a mini dictionary to help explain challenging or very specific words within a passage, book, or magazine.
What is a glossary?
In Passage 2, after the maple syrup is bottled or canned, this happens.
What is labels are placed on the bottles and cans?
How does the picture after Passage 2 add to the reader's understanding of the maple syrup making process?
It shows that "sugar makers" like Tom and William often use snow as a natural "refrigerator" to keep sap cool during the collection and early storage phase.
This is The Big Thing That Happens Right Away at the beginning of a story right after establishing the normal that sets the protagonist off on their journey.
What is the inciting incident?
I never saw a Purple Cow,
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I’d rather see than be one!
The sound pattern in this poem is called this.
What is the rhyme scheme?