Story Elements
Parts of Speech
Fiction vs. Nonfiction
Characters & Setting
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100

The time and place where a story happens.


What is the setting?


100


A person, place, thing, or idea.



What is a noun?

100


Which is made-up: fiction or nonfiction?



What is fiction ? 
100

The main people, animals, or creatures in a story are called ______.
 What are characters?



What are characters?

100


When you show how two things are alike.



What is compare?

200

The message or lesson the author wants you to learn.


What is the theme?


200


An action word.

What is a verb?

200


book about sharks with facts and pictures is ______.


What is nonfiction ?


200

The time and place where a story happens is the ______.



What is the setting?

200


When you show how two things are different.



What is contrast?

300

Something that makes something else happen in a story.


What is a cause?


300


A word that describes a noun.

What is an adjective?

300

A story with talking animals is what type of text?


What is fiction?



300


Who is the spider in Charlotte’s Web?


Who is Charlotte?

300


Using clues from the story to figure something out.



What is making an inference?

400

What happens as a result of a cause in a story.


What is an effect?


400

A word that takes the place of a noun.

What is a pronoun?

400

Which type of nonfiction tells the story of someone’s life, written by them?


What is an autobiography?


400

What do we call the problem in a story?



What is the conflict?

400


A detail that supports the main idea.


What is a supporting detail?

500

What the story is mostly about.


What is the main idea?


500

A word like "and," "but," or

"because" that connects words or ideas.

What is a

a conjunction?

500

Which type of nonfiction tells the story of someone’s life, written by someone else?


What is an autobiography? 

500

What do we call the order of events in a story?
 


What is the plot?

500


When you answer a question and use proof from the text.

What is reasoning with text evidence?