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Literary Elements
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I am so tired I could sleep for a year.

What is hyperbole?
100
When answering a short answer or essay question, what acronym do you need to remember?


Get up to 400 extra points if you can tell me what each letter stands for!

What is RACE? Restate the question; Answer all parts of the question; Cite evidence; Explain your evidence
100
Identify the noun in the following sentence:


The title is funny.

What is a title?
100
Make sure to eat a good one of these each day before your ISTEP tests! (No, it does not include Flaming Hot Cheetos!)
What is breakfast?
100
This is the lesson or moral that a story is trying to teach.
What is a theme?
200

The branches bowed to the ground.

What is personification?
200
When beginning the constructed response portion on ISTEP, a student should look at these first.
What are the questions?
200

Identify the verb in the following sentence:


Clap your hands a little louder.

What is clap?
200

This is the sentence in a paragraph that introduces what the paragraph is about.

What is the topic sentence?
200

The hero (usually the main character) of a story, novel or a play

What is a protagonist?
300

Eek! I saw a mouse.

What is onomatopoeia?

300
Although one should use R.A.C.E. to formulate a good response, full sentences are needed in a good answer. Sentences start with capital letters, end with punctuation, and must form complete thoughts. These two parts make up a complete sentence...
What are subjects and predicates? Or a noun and a verb?
300
Adjectives are words that describe...
What are nouns or pronouns?
300
This is the amount of suggested rest you will need to have your brain and body ready to conquer the ISTEP each day!
What is 8-10 hours?
300

The logical sequence of events that develops a story

What is the plot?
400

Dewdrops dwell delicately on the daffodils.

What is alliteration?
400
You may be asked to compare and contrast two or more passages, explain what each word means.
What is compare means to point out the things that are similar and contrast means to point out the things that are different?
400

**Daily Double**

Adverbs often end with the letters -ly and answer the questions _______, ______________, and _________.
What are how, when, and where?
400

The turning point in the story; has the most tension, drama 

What is the climax?
400

The beginning of the story, where you learn about setting and characters

What is the exposition?
500

It is as hot as the Sahara Desert.

What is a simile?
500
The writing prompt on ISTEP relies on keyboard commands to do things like copy and paste. 

Write the keyboard commands for the following tasks:

Select all, copy, paste, and undo

What is control + A (select all), control +c (copy), control +v (paste), and control +z (undo)?
500
The acronym for coordinating conjunctions is FANBOYS and stands for....
What is for, and, nor, but, ,or yet, so?
500
It's raining cats and dogs!


This is an example of...

What is an idiom?
500

An issue/problem in a narrative around which the whole story revolves

What is the conflict?