Story Elements
The time and place of a story
What is setting?
A word that expresses an action
What is a verb?
To look at and take note of the illustrations and text features before reading the passage
What is to preview?
A comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
To use the information that you read and the illustrations to guess what will take place in a story
What is predict?
The events and conflict that occur in a story
What is plot?
The leaves danced in the wind. The name of this literary device is...
What is personification?
A word that describes or modifies a person, place, thing, or idea in the sentence
What is an adjective?
The part of the word without the prefix or suffix
What is a base word?
What the story or paragraph is mostly about.
What is main idea?
The problems or challenges that the characters must face or overcome in the story
What is conflict?
The boy ran as fast as a cheetah.
This literary device is an example of...
What is a simile?
A word that takes the place of a noun
What is a pronoun?
Books, toys, peaches, men, oxen, women, foxes, daisies
What are examples of plural words?
The text structure that focuses on the why and what of events
What is cause and effect?
The underlying message the author wants you to learn
What is the theme?
The use of human characteristics to describe animals, things, or ideas
What is personification?
A word or phrase that describes an adjective or verb
It answers the questions: how, when where, to what extent
What is an adverb?
a conclusion or opinion that is formed using the clues from the text along with your own background knowledge
What is inference?