Story Elements
This is when/where the story takes place.
The setting
What is personification?
Giving human qualities to things and ideas that are not humans.
This lines of this type of poetry are usually in the shape or design that relates to the topic of the poem.
Concrete
This type of story includes real events from a person's life, but it's written by someone else.
Biography
This part of speech is a person, place, thing.
A noun
What does chronological order mean?
When the order of events that happen from first to last.
What does it mean to "use context clues" to determine what something means?
Use surrounding details from the text to understand what you're reading.
Onomatopoeia is one element used in poetry. What is onomatopoeia? Can you give an example?
Sound words
What is the author's reason for writing a story or poem?
examples: describe, entertain, persuade, give information
Author's purpose
This part of speech is an action word.
A verb.
The series of events in a story from beginning to end.
The plot.
A group of lines in a poem that the author uses to keep topics together.
What is a stanza?
What two words relate to the "sound device" feature of poetry?
Rhyming and Rhythm
Give 3 examples of text features
Bold print/vocabulary terms, glossary, pictures, captions, headings, graphs/tables/diagrams, bullet points, etc.
This part of speech describes a noun or pronoun.
Ex: The pretty girl played with the small cat.
An adjective
What point of view is a text that uses: I, me, my, we, us
First Person Point of View
Happened in the past, real or fake characters, real or fake events, real setting
Which type of poetry tells a story?
Narrative
This is what the story is mostly about?
Main Idea
What is the adverb in this sentence?
I was feeling hungry, so I quickly made myself a delicious sandwich.
quickly
Words that have the same or similar meaning are called?
Synonyms
What type of poem tells a story?
A narrative poem
List an element of poetry we haven't talked about yet today!
figurative language, free verse, simile, metaphor, idioms, etc.
Compare and Contrast
Sequence of Events
Problem and Resolution
Description
Cause and Effect
These are a few examples of?
Text Structure
These phrases are examples of what?
The wind howled at night. The book was so popular it flew off the shelves. The last piece of pie was calling my name.
Personification - giving human qualities to things and ideas that are not humans.