Parts of a Story
The people or animals that act out the story.
Who are the characters
A person, place, thing or idea.
What is a noun
A comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile
Prefix meaning "not" as in "--known"?
What is "un"
The time and the place of the story.
What is the setting
A word that describes an action (doing something) or a state (being something).
What is a verb
Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
What is personification
Prefix meaning "to do over" as in "--tell".
What is "re"
The person who writes the story and the person who draws the pictures for the story.
What is the author and the illustrator
A word that describes a noun. It tells you something about the noun.
What is an adjective
Repetition of the same sound at the beginning of closely connected words.
What is alliteration
Prefix meaning "not" as in "---sense".
What is "non"
The events that happen in the story.
What is the plot
A word which usually describes a verb. It tells you how something is done. It may also tell you when or where something happened.
What is an adverb
Words that imitate sounds.
What is onomatopoeia
The suffix meaning past tense (I did walk, I did talk, I did move)
What is -ed (walked, talked, moved)
The message that is in the story or what the story is about.
What is the theme
A word used instead of a noun, to avoid repeating the noun. (Ex: I, you, he, etc.)
What is a pronoun
An exaggeration used for emphasis or effect.
What is a hyperbole
The suffix meaning without (without care, without fear, without help)
What is -less (careless, fearless, helpless)