Besides details from the story itself, these are the two main things you need to bring into the story in order to make predictions.
What are background knowledge and your own personal experiences?
100
The 5 parts of the Plot Mountain.
What are exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
100
This word root means to "pay" or "give".
What is -trib-?
100
This type of noun is more polite to use than its counterpart.
What is a proper noun?
100
This is how you make a complete sentence.
What is with a capital letter at the beginning and punctuation at the end.
200
This is the section of flight schedules you should look in if you are traveling by plane on Thanksgiving Day.
What are the holiday flight schedules?
200
This means the type of order when a story's events are set up specifically from start to finish without interruptions.
What is chronological order.
200
This word root means "look at".
What is -scope-?
200
These type of nouns are NOT tangible by the 5 senses but they are still nouns.
What are abstract nouns?
200
You must make sure to do this when writing a new ending to a story.
What is write the new ending in the same style as the rest of the text?
300
This is the section of the ferry schedule you should look to if you want to know when the fairy will get to your dock.
What is the arrivals section?
300
This term is used for when an author eludes to something in the past that is particularly important to the character.
What is flashback?
300
This word root means "threshold".
What is -limin-?
300
These type of nouns ARE tangible by the five senses.
What are concrete nouns?
300
You add an 's to regular singular nouns to make them this type of noun.
What is a possessive noun?
400
The prediction you can make from the following passage: "Drew is using ropes and carabiners to rock climb up the edge of a 500 ft cliff. He did not check his ropes before starting his climb so he doesn't know that one is terribly frayed. All of the sudden the rope snaps and the only things keeping Drew from falling to his death are his sore and tired hands."
What is the man will fall off the cliff face?
400
This is the term that is used for when an author drops hints about events that are coming in the future.
What is foreshadowing.
400
This word root means to "judge".
What is -jud-?
400
These type of nouns are informal.
What are common nouns?
400
When writing a business letter you must make sure the letter has this type of tone.
What is a formal tone?
500
They way in which bus schedules and concert schedules are alike.
What is they both show you the time of events.
500
These are the two types of conflict a character can face and give an example of each. (i.e. man vs. ?)
What is external conflict (man vs. man, man vs. nature) and internal conflict (man vs. self)
500
This words means that you are paying respect to someone or something.
What is tribute?
500
These four elements make up a letter.
What is a heading, a greeting, a body, and a closing signature.