Story Elements
Another name for the main idea of a story or article
What is the central idea?
How you should answer a question that asks for text evidence
What is R.A.C.E.?
When the subject is performing the action this voice is used.
What is Active Voice?
I am a comparison between to unlike things. I also use like or as.
What is a simile?
This is what paragraphs in poems are called
What are stanzas?
The life lesson or universal message of a story
What is the theme?
A formal piece of writing that tells a story
What is a narrative?
Two verbs are always required when writing in this voice.
What is Passive Voice?
I am a comparison not using like or as
What is a metaphor?
This is when two words have the same ending sound like cat hat sat bat rat
What is a rhyme?
This is mainly what a story is about. Without it, there would be no story.
What is the plot?
A formal piece of writing in which you are arguing a point.
What is argumentative writing?
What a statement sentence ends with.
What is a period?
I give human characteristics to non human things
What is personification?
You do not take this language literally
What is figurative language?
The point of greatest tension in a story.
What is the climax?
An essay that explains or informs the reader about a topic
What is an informative or explanatory essay?
When two or more characters speak to one another in a narrative
What is dialogue?
I exagerate a situation
What is hyperbole?
Each sentence in a poem is called this
What is a line?
The conflict is found in this part of a story
What is rising action?
A retell of a story or article in your own words
What is a summary?
You must use this punctuation when writing dialogue or a direct quote.
What are quotation marks?
I use the senses to create vivid details
What is imagery?
When you see the same words or phrases over and over in a poem
What is repetition
This is where the characters, setting, and climate are introduced in the beginning of a story. (Think of plot Mountain)
What is the exposition?
R.A.C.E. stands for this.
What is Restate, Answer, Cite, & Explain?
I am a word that takes the place of a noun-(hint: their,
she, it)
What is a pronoun?
This type of writing uses plenty of figurative language
What is poetry?
When the first letter sound is repeated in a line or stanza of a poem
What is alliteration?