Narrative Techniques
What fiction technique is used when the author describes what a character says, thinks, and does to reveal personality?
Who is Characterization?
What does summarize mean?
What is To briefly tell the most important ideas?
These are words that imitate the sound they represent.
What is an onomatopoeia?
This is the moral of the story.
What is theme?
What does the bee do? Bring home honey. And what does Father do? Bring home money. And what does Mother do? Lay out the money. And what does baby do? Eat up the honey.
What is poetry?
How does pacing affect a story?
What is It controls how quickly or slowly events happen and builds tension or excitement ?
Why might an author include expert quotes in an article.
What is To build credibility and strengthen the argument ?
The crook was as sly as a fox.
What is simile?
This is considered the turning point of the story/the most exciting part of the story.
What is the climax?
What punctuation should be used in a list with commas?
Semicolons
This is the problem in plot development.
What is conflict?
These help you to read a piece of informational text. They can be captions, sidebars, bold words, etc.
What are text features?
My computer screamed before it died a brutal death.
What is personification?
This is a paragraph in a poem.
What is a stanza?
What is imagery?
What is Language that appeals to the five senses.
This tells you the setting and the main characters that are introduced at the beginning of the story.
What is the exposition?
There are five types of text structures. Name them.
What are problem/solution, cause & effect, description, compare & contrast, and sequence?
Choose the best answer. Which of the following is an inanimate object that can be personified? A. a star B. the dog C. Suzy D. Basketball team
What is A?
The four types of conflict.
What are Character v. Character, Character v. Self, Character v. Nature, and Character v. Society ?
How can conflict help reveal theme?
What is Conflict teaches a lesson or shows what the character learns.
A character spends the whole story trying to impress others, but in the end realizes being authentic matters more than popularity.
Question: How does the character’s internal conflict help develop the theme?
What is The internal conflict between wanting approval and wanting to be authentic helps develop the theme that true happiness comes from being yourself rather than seeking others’ approval.
An article includes statistics, expert quotes, and emotional stories from families affected by pollution.
Question: Why might the author choose to include all three types of evidence instead of only statistics?
What is The author uses multiple types of evidence to strengthen credibility, appeal to emotions, and persuade different audiences more effectively.
“The hallway roared like a stadium as students rushed to lunch.”
Question: Identify two figurative language techniques used and explain their effect.
What is Simile (“like a stadium”) and personification (“hallway roared”). These create vivid imagery and emphasize how loud and chaotic the hallway felt.
In a story, a broken watch appears in the opening paragraph. Later, the watch stops at the exact moment the family receives life-changing news.
Question: What literary device is the author most likely using, and how does it contribute to the story?
What is Foreshadowing. The broken watch represents time, change, or the end of one chapter in the family’s life. It contributes by adding deeper meaning and emphasizing the importance of the moment.
This is a story about the Holocaust but it has made-up characters that were not real.
What is historical fiction?