The location and time in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
100
What the story is mainly about.
What is the main idea?
100
This is a person, place, thing, or idea. An example is "dog."
What is a noun?
100
The comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more vivid.
"The tiny white flowers dotted the morning mountainside like patches of snow" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
100
A piece of writing that tells a story. It has characters, settings, and a plot.
What is a narrative?
200
This is when a character is talking.
What is dialogue?
200
The way an author feels about his subject.
What is tone?
200
This part of speech is an action, occurrence, or state of being. "Stomp" is an example.
What is a verb?
200
A word/phrase applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
"The stars were candles guiding the weary travelers" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
200
I was late to work.
What is independent clause?
300
This is the list of people in a play.
What is the cast of characters?
300
The feeling the author creates in a story.
What is mood?
300
This part of speech describes (or modifies) a noun. An example is "awesome."
What is an adjective?
300
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
300
his house is too expensive, and that house is too small
What is a compound sentence?
400
This is the part of the story when the suspense peaks and the protagonist faces the problem.
What is the climax?
400
This is a series of relevant incidents that create suspense, interest and tension in a narrative
What is a rising action?
400
This part of speech modifies (describes) any other part of speech, but is usually used to modify a verb. This part of speech usally ends in -ly.
What is an adverb?
400
To attribute human characteristics to something nonhuman.
"Storm clouds threatened to flood the wheat fields in the Midwestern region" is an example of this.
What is personification?
400
"After we went outside, we ate lunch" is an example of this type of sentence.
What is a complex sentence?
500
This is the deeper meaning or the insight the story teaches about life.
What is theme?
500
This section introduces the characters, describes the setting and establishes the problem in the story.
What is the exposition?
500
This part of speech relates nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. "Under" is an example.
What are prepositions?
500
When a writer attempts to describe something so that it appeals to our sense of smell, sight, taste, touch, or hearing.
"The lake was left shivering by the touch of morning wind,"
is an example of this.
What is imagery?
500
"Because she broke her arm" is an example of this.