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Plot Elements
Non Fiction
Figurative Language
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
This part of the plot introduces the characters, setting, and conflict.
What is the exposition?
100
Refers to the way that a non fiction text is organized.
What is text structure?
100
When something happens that is the opposite of what you would expect.
What is irony?
100
In the words portable and transportation, the root word "port" means this.
What is to carry?
100
The way that the author makes the reader feel when reading his/her book or writing selection.
What is mood?
200
Part of the plot in which the story ends.
What is the resolution?
200
Author's purpose of writing an expository text.
What is to inform, describe, explain, or persuade?
200
"The wind sang a mysterious song,'' is an example of this.
What is personification?
200
Dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
200
A conflict in which a character is faced with a decision to make.
What is Man Vs. Himself or Internal Conflict?
300
The author's message.
What is the theme?
300
A non-fiction book that someone write's about someone else's life.
What is a biography?
300
"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," is an example of this.
What is an idiom?
300
The emotions or feelings that you associate with a word.
What is connotation?
300
Alluding to something else in literature, a song, the Bible, Greek Mythology, etc...
What is an allusion?
400
Describes who is telling the story, and it can be the main character, another character in the story, or an anonymous all knowing person.
What is point of view?
400
A text structure that explains where something/someone is located, and uses words and phrases such as: beneath, in front of, next to, and east of.
What is spatial order?
400
"I am so hungry I could eat a horse," is an example of this.
What is hyperbole?
400
In the words fracture and fraction, the root word "fract" means this.
What is to break?
400
Select the word that has a negative connotation: brainwash or persuade
What is brainwash?
500
Part in the plot in which the turning point occurs.
What is the climax?
500
Text structure that uses signal words such as: as a result, because, so, and since.
What is cause and effect?
500
Details that describe sensory images
What is imagery?
500
Complete the analogy: Dictionary : Definition ________ : Maps
What is an Atlas?
500
The author's attitude about what he/she is writing, that is conveyed to the reader through words, events, etc..
What is tone?