Elements of a Story
The setting of a story refers to this.
What is time and place of a story?
This device gives human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
When you combine information/evidence from the text with your background knowledge you make an...
What is an inference?
When a person in the story has a conflict with another character in the story.
What is an external conflict?
All the letters of RACE stand for this...
What is
R: Restate
A: Answer
C: Cite evidence
E: Explain your evidence
This term describes the main, or leading, character in a story.
What is the protagonist?
This device compares two things using "like" or "as".
What is simile?
This is a brief statement or account of the main points of a paragraph or passage.
What is a summary?
The sequence of events in a story.
What is the plot?
To provide evidence to back up a claim.
What is justify/support?
This term describes the turning point of a story.
What is the climax?
This device is a repeated sound at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
When you look at something closely, usually breaking it down into smaller parts to understand it better.
What is analyze?
Words that give hints to help define a difficult or unusal word in a text.
What are context clues?
Sentences that support the main/central idea in a paragraph.
What are supporting details?
This point of view uses "I" and "me" in storytelling.
What is first person?
This is the literary device where words mimic a sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
To define or describe something so that people understand it.
What is explain?
What the text is mostly about.
What is central idea?
Restate this sentence:
How do details in paragraph 5 help develop a central idea of the article?
The details in paragraph 5 help develop a central idea of the article.
The moral or lesson that can be learned from a story is known as this.
What is theme?
An expression that has a different meaning from its literal words. Ex: The test was a piece of cake.
What is an idiom?
Making a judgement or decision based on evidence.
What is evaluate/determine?
The reason why an author wrote a book or story. Usually the reasons are persuade, inform or entertain.
What is author's purpose?
Give an example of a sentence starter that you would use in a RACE paragraph.
According to the article...
This shows that...
The author states...