Pick a Participle
The screaming baby drove his mother home.
What is screaming?
Eating is my favorite hobby.
What is eating?
Ends a declarative sentence.
What is a period?
Anthony ran to the store.
What is ran-action?
The main character.
Who is the protagonist?
What is running?
Yesterday, my brother and I went kite-flying.
What is kite-flying?
Ends an interrogative sentence.
What is a question mark?
Anthony is a runner.
What is is-linking?
The thing that fights against the main character.
Who is the antagonist?
I threw three pennies in the wishing well and my crazy brother is still here!
What is wishing?
The burning marshmallow made eating difficult.
What is eating?
Ends an exclamatory sentence.
What is an exclamation mark?
Anthony was running on Saturday.
What is was running - helping/action?
This is what starts the rising action.
What is the problem/conflict?
Mom looked at the cracked vase and then back at me as I tried to construct a believable story in my head.
What is cracked.
Laughing at the clowns on the spinning top made me want to try singing.
What is singing?
Separates two ideas in the same sentence.
What is a comma?
This clown tastes funny.
What is tastes-linking.
This is what leads to the climax.
What is the rising action?
Eating cupcakes makes me feel like walking the dog unless my the burned paper sticks to the delicious frosting.
What is burned?
What is thinking?
Separates closely related independent clauses.
What is a semicolon?
The singing tree with its burning branches and screaming acorns, seemed strange.
What is seemed-linking?
This is the new word we learned that means resolution.
What is denouement?