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?Mystery Category?
100
If a question asks you how the conflict in the story advanced the plot?
To advance the plot means that the conflict forces characters to make decisions or take actions that cause other events to happen.
100
Poems are often divided up into chunks of lines. What are these chunks called?
What are stanzas?
100
Story with fictional characters and events in a historical setting.
What is historical fiction?
100
Information written next to a photograph or diagram.
What is a caption?
100
A word used to describe someone based on their words, thoughts, and actions. Example: honest, hardworking, deceitful.
What is a character trait?
200
What are three things that you would include in the exposition box of your plot diagram?
1. Characters. 2. Conflict/problem 3. Setting
200
Words that are sounds (like "Crash" or "Slap!") are called
What is onomatopoeia?
200
Fiction with strange or other worldly settings or characters. Example: The Twilight Series, Guardians of Gahoole, etc.
What is fantasy?
200
An illustration with labeled parts. Example: a picture of a skeleton with labels identifying the different bones.
What is a diagram?
200
What is the difference between an internal conflict and an external conflict?
Internal= the character is having a dilemma about something Externa= the character is having a problem with nature or another person
300
This is the part of the plot where the conflict is beginning to be resolved.
What is the falling action?
300
A comparison of two things, using like or as, is called what? (Example: The runner was as agile as a gazelle.)
What is a simile?
300
What does it mean to make an inference?
Reading between the lines and using what you know to figure out what is going on in the book.
300
Words that are darker than the rest of the text in the article or story are typed in ______ print.
What is bold?
300
What does "paraphrase" mean?
To simplify and put into your own words.
400
This is the most exciting part of the plot, when the main conflict is taking place.
What is the climax?
400
The person talking in the poem is called the _________.
What is the speaker?
400
A 100% true account of someone's life, written by another person.
What is a biography?
400
A dictionary of terms and their definitions found at the back of a textbook or nonfiction book.
What is a glossary?
400
When the author uses lots of details to help you see, hear, smell, taste or feel what they are writing about. This is called ______.
What is imagery?
500
The ending of the story, the conflict has been resolved.
What is the resolution?
500
When a non-living thing is described using human traits. For example, The trees danced in the wind.
What is personification?
500
A fictional story with characters and conflicts that could take place in real-life. Example: The Bluford Series; Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie.
What is realistic fiction?
500
A small dot placed next to each item in a list is called a _______.
What is a bullet?
500
There are three CRUCIAL things you need to do when you are writing a BCR. They are...
1. Answer the question. 2. Give text support. 3. Make a text-to-world connection or extension.