Parts of Speech Vocabulary
Story Grammar (5 parts of a story)
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100

people, places, things, or ideas 

What are nouns?

100

The beginning of a story; getting to know characters 

What is exposition? includes setting and characters 

100

What was the name of the disease that spread across Europe? 

What is a the black death?

100

the author or narrator's attitude towards the subject

What is tone?

100

Comparing 2 things using the words like or as

What is Smilie?

200

action or movement words, words that describe a state of being, words that are used to link or help 

What are verbs?

200

Things start to get more interesting in the story

What is rising action? or Problem?

200

these types of nouns must be capitalized

What are proper nouns?

200

a serious disagreement or argument

what is conflict?

200

"My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss."


This is an example of which literary device?


What is a metaphor? (Romeo compares his lips with pilgrims without the use of the word "like" or "as")

300

these connect words, phrases, or clauses in sentences

can be coordinating (basic), correlative (complex), or subordinating (complex) 

(Hint: FANBOYS)

What are conjunctions?

300

the turning point of a story

What is the climax? or the plot?

300

A female giraffe has 62 chromosomes in each of her skin cells

How many chromosomes will be in the skin cells of her offspring?

What is a 62?


300

what is the fifth planet from the sun?

what is Jupiter?


300

the message an author wants you to learn reading their work

What is theme?

400

these types of words describe verbs, direction, location, and most of the time end in 'ly'

adverbs

400

Things start to take care of themselves; problems start to be solved

What is falling action? or attempts by characters to solve the problem?

400

A complete sentence is composed of these three parts

What are subject, verb, and a complete thought?

400

Language of the sense

Sight, Smell, Sound, Taste, Touch/Fell 

what is Imagery?

400

the choice and use of correct word tense in speech and/or writing to make complete sentences that make sense to the listener or reader

What is grammar?

500

these words describe nouns

adjectives

500

The end of a story

What is the resolution? 

500

Skyler mows lawns in the summer. The function f(x) is used to model the amount of money earned, where x is the number of lawns completely mowed. A reasonable domain for this function would be

What are Natural numbers?

500

the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism

What is habitat

500

How the author wants the reader to feel about their writing

What are mood?