Plot
The sequence of events in a story.
What is plot?
Main character in a literary story.
What is protagonist?
underlying main idea of a story or passage
What is theme?
What is to Infer?
the president's daughter's names are malia and sasha.
What is missing capitalization?
The turning point in a story.
What is climax?
Character that is source of conflict for the protagonist.
What is antagonist?
group of lines from a poem; similar to a paragraph
What is a stanza?
Central thought or message.
What is the Main Idea?
She often visits her father on the weekend
What is a missing period?
Events that happen after the climax.
What is falling action?
comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
author's attitude toward the subject of his writing
What is tone?
A direct comparison.
What is a metaphor?
A special kind of punctuation that is used to indicate a pause or separation in writing. I like lettuce tomatoes bacon blue cheese and barbeque sauce on my hamburger.
What are missing commas?
The part of a story in which the characters, plot, & setting is introduced. Hint: "Once upon a time"
What is the introduction?
phrase where non-human characteristics are given human characteristics "The tree cried when the rain hit its branches."
What is personification?
the feeling you have when reading a passage
What is mood?
To say what will happen before it occurs.
What is to predict?
What's for dinner.
What is a missing question mark?
time and place of a story or passage
What is setting?
returning to an earlier time in a story; to help make the present clear "As the teacher yelled, all he could remember was how his dad used to yell at him when before he disappeared."
What is a flashback?
technique that keeps the reader guessing
What is suspense?
Give only the main parts.
Micheals new car was a gift from his grandmother.
What is a missing apostrophe?