Elements of Narrative
The time and place a story occurs.
What is setting?
The reason an author writes a text, such as to inform, entertain, or persuade.
What is author's purpose?
A word with the opposite meaning of another word.
What is an antonym?
This is the sequence in which events occur in a story.
what is chronological order?
What does it mean to summarize a text?
Pull out only the main points and put it in your own words
If a text uses the words "he", "she", or "they" to tell a story.
- What POV is it?
What is third-person point of view?
The narrator is a character in the story and uses pronouns like 'I' and 'we'.
What is first person point of view?
A word that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word.
What is a synonym?
A text structure that explains how things are similar and different.
what is compare and contrast?
Can you explain the difference between a fiction and a nonfiction text?
Fiction: Imagination/not real
Nonfiction: Facts/based on real events
This term describes the struggle between opposing forces in a story.
What is conflict?
The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
what is third person omniscient point of view
A word part added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning.
what is a prefix?
A text structure that tells about a problem and offers one or more solutions.
what is problem and solution?
Making a guess about what will happen next in a story is called this.
what is a prediction?
This is the main idea or underlying message of a literary work.
what is theme?
The narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character, using 'he', 'she', or 'they'.
What is third person limited point of view?
A word part added to the end of a word to change its meaning.
What is a suffix?
A text structure that explains why something happens and what happens as a result.
what is cause and effect?
Using words and sentences around an unfamiliar word to figure out its meaning.
what are context clues?
This is a character who changes significantly throughout a story.
What is a dynamic character?
A technique where the narrator speaks directly to the reader, using 'you'.
What is second person POV?
A word or phrase that means something different from its literal meaning, such as 'it's raining cats and dogs'.
What is an idiom?
A text structure that describes something by listing its features, characteristics, or examples.
what is description?
Name two types of nouns.
- Common nouns
- Proper nouns