Category 1: Story Elements
A struggle between opposing forces. Ex. man vs. man; man vs. self; man vs. nature; etc.
What is conflict?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using the word "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
A group of lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
Restate the main points BRIEFLY in your own words
What is summarize/summary?
A text structure - something happens and the result of it happening.
What is cause and effect?
Introduces setting and characters; reveals a confict/sets the stage for confict
What is exposition?
An animal, object, or idea being given human qualities
What is personfication?
How many lines are in the poem below?
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
What is four?
Recognize or tell what something or someone is
What is identify?
A text structure that presents a problem and offers solutions to solve the problem
What is problem and solution?
The obstacles that make the confict more complicated; incidents and dialogue that propel action
What is rising action?
A figure of speech that is an extreme exaggeration: truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous efect.
What is hyperbole?
The repetition of identical concluding syllables in different words
What is rhyme?
Tell the difference between two things
What is contrast?
Tell the order or sequence that something happened
What is chronological order?
Turning point in story; moment of greatest suspense; confict at its most intense and dramatic
What is climax?
A phrase that has a meaning different from the literal meaning of its words
What is an idiom?
Directions for the actors in a play, written in parenthesis after the character's name
What are stage directions?
A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action
What is a dynamic character?
Describes the characteristics of something
What is description?
Reveals story's final outcome; ties up loose ends
What is resolution?
The use of words whose sounds echo their meaning
What is onomatopoeia?
What the characters say
What is a dialogue?
A message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader - often through inference rather than stating it. It is universal. There won't be a character's name mentioned.
What is theme?
Describes the similarites and differences between two or more things
What is compare and contrast?