What is the setting of a story?
Where/when the story takes place
When a narrator uses "I, Me," it is written in this perspective
First Person
Who is telling the story
Point of View
What does the root "bio" mean?
In a poem, a paragraph is referred to as a
stanza
The problem of the story
The message or lesson of the story
Theme
When the author is trying to convince or make you believe something?
Persuade
She is busy as a bee.
This is an example of what type of figurative language?
Simile
"The girl walked faster as the night air whispered in her ear." Is an example of what kind of figurative language?
Personification
What does it mean to compare and contrast?
To tell how things are the same or different
The minuscule puppy had a difficult time walking up the stairs.
Use your context clues to determine the meaning of the italicized word.
tiny
Explain the difference between fiction and nonfiction.
Fiction = a made up story
Nonfiction = text based on factual information
"You are my sunshine" is an example of?
A metaphor
What does chronological order mean?
order of events from first to last
In the movie Lion King, which character would be considered as the antagonist?
Scar
What a text is mostly about?
Central Idea/Main Idea
"I told you a Gazillion times stop touching me!" Is an example of what kind of figurative language
Idiom
What does the root word "hydro" mean?
Water
Give me an example of a story and a theme we have reviewed before.
Various
What is the proper noun in the following sentence? Mário loves to paint and draw colorful landscape scenes.
Put the following plot elements in order: climax, falling action, rising action, resolution, exposition.
Exposition
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
The narrator is not in the story and the pronouns are he, she, they, and them.
What punctuation marks do you use to cite direct evidence from the text?
Quotation marks
"The test was a piece of cake" Is an example of what type of figurative language?
Idiom