Story elements
The time and place of a story
what is setting
What is alliteration?
A word used to describe an action, state of being, or occurrence.
What is a verb?
dis, mis, un, pre, re, semi, sub, tri, non, multi
What is a prefix?
To look at and take note of the illustrations and text
What is to preview?
People and animals in a story
An overstatement or exaggeration of fact
People, places, things, or ideas
What is a noun?
able, ant, tion, ible,ed, er
What is a suffix?
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 comparison of one thing to another that does use the terms "like" or "as"
What is simile?
Describes or modifies a person, place, thing, or idea in the sentence
What is an adjective?
The base word without prefixes or suffixes
What is a root word?
What the story or paragraph is mostly about
The problems or challenges that the characters must face in the story
What is conflict?
The comparison of one thing to another that does not use the terms "like" or "as"
What is metaphor?
A word that takes the place of a noun
What is a pronoun?
What are examples of plural words?
The why and what of events
What is cause and effect?
An idea leading to the moral of the story
What is the theme?
The use of human characteristics to describe animals, things, or ideas
What is personification?
A word or phrase that modifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb, answers the questions: how, when, where, to what extent
What is an abverb?
Young-old, loud-quiet, big-little, tall-short, few-many
What are antonyms?
What is inference?