Story Elements
The time and place of a story
What is setting?
A word that expresses an action
What is a verb?
This type of POV occurs when the main character is telling the story and you read words like: I, me, my
What is 1st person point of view?
This text structure organizes information into time order or steps.
What is to chronological order or sequencing?
A comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
This POV occurs when the narrator is telling the story and you read words like: he, she, and they
What is 3rd person point of view?
This text structure is used to explain an issue and then gives ideas to fix the issue
What is problem and solution?
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?
Words that have closely the same meaning. examples: small-tiny; quiet-silent
What is a synonym?
What the story or paragraph is mostly about.
What is main idea/central 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?
captions, diagrams, headings, illustrations, glossary
What are text and graphic features?
The text structure that focuses on why something happens and what happens as a result
What is cause and effect?
The underlying message/lesson 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?
These words have opposite meanings. Examples: Young-old, loud-quiet, big-little, tall-short, few-many
What are antonyms?
a conclusion or opinion that is formed using the clues from the text along with your own background knowledge
What is inference?