Elements of Literature
plot
What is happening in the story
Put this at the end of a sentence
period
compare/contrast
Show how 2 or more things are alike or different
fiction
fake, made up
infer
figure out what has happened because the author didn't come out and tell you
setting
when and where the story takes place
Put this at the end of a question.
question mark
cause/effect
what made something happen and the result of it
non-fiction
real, true, giving facts and information
predict
guess what is going to happen next
theme
the life lesson, moral of the story, the message
makes a pause or connects two sentences with a conjunction
comma
what is wrong and how to fix
realistic fiction
could happen but didn't, the characters are made up
dialogue
a conversation between two or more people
point of view
the relationship of the narrator to the story
Put around text evidence or around dialogue
quotation marks
sequence
order of events
historical fiction
a made up story based on a real even from the past
subject
who or what the story is about
conflict
problem
Combines two sentences WITHOUT a conjunction
semi-colon
What are the RACES steps?
R-Restate the question
A- Answer it
C- Cite text evidence
E- Explain it in your own words
S- Sum it up
narrative
story
predicate
what the subject is doing, or am, is, are, was, were