This is plot stage which the reader is introduced to the characters, setting, and initial conflict.
What is the exposition?
100
This is a logical guess based on the clues or details in a story.
What is an inference?
100
This is the author's message of a story.
What is theme?
100
This is a traditional story including gods and goddesses which was created to explain mysteries of the universe.
What is a myth?
100
The tornado SKIPPED from home to home leaving a path of destruction.
What is a personification?
200
This is the two broad types of conflict a character may have in a story.
What is internal and external conflict?
200
This is what the R.A.C.E. strategy stands for.
What is Restate the question/ Answer the question/ Cite your answer/ Extend or Explain more in depth
200
This is what the acronym P.I.E. stands for. It is the author's purpose for writing.
What is persuade, inform, and entertain?
200
The Turtle and the Hare and the Lion and the Mouse are famous characters in these types of traditional stories.
What are fables?
200
The boy was a snake in the grass, slowly moving towards his unsuspecting sister.
What is a metaphor?
300
This is the "turning point" of a story. The part of the story where most of your predictions can be answered.
What is the climax?
300
This is the point of view in which the narrator is inside the story with all the other characters.
What is 1st person point of view?
300
This is the graphic organizer a writer would use for an article written in a compare and contrast text structure.
What is a Venn diagram?
300
These are standards of behaviors each civilization finds important.
What are cultural values?
300
The trumpet fell to the floor with a CLANG!
What is an onomatopoeia?
400
A conflict in which a character has trouble with a rule or regulation they are supposed to abide by.
What is character versus society?
400
These are the two forms of characterization. One is what the author "tells" us about a character, and one is what the author "shows" us about a character.
What is direct characterization "tells" us, and indirect characterization "shows" us.
400
This is the text structure in which I would likely use a fish bone graphic organizer.
What is cause and effect text structure?
400
This is a story which is passed down from generation to generation and is believed to be based on real people or real events. King Arthur is an example.
What is a legend?
400
It's 8th mod on the last day before a long weekend, all the students seem to have ANTS IN THEIR PANTS.
What is an idiom?
500
Setting is more than when and where. These are the 8 parts of setting.
What is time of day, geographic location, 5 senses, purpose of the space, weather, era, season, and mood?
500
This is the point of view where the narrator is outside the story giving us details of which 2 or more characters are thinking or feeling.
What is 3rd person omniscient point of view?
500
This is defined as a person, place, or thing that stands or represents something beyond itself. A dove representing peace is an example.
What is a symbol or symbolism?
500
These are the three characteristics all myths must include.
What is they tell how something in nature came to be, they feature gods or other beings with supernatural powers, and they give evidence of the cultural values of the people writing them.
500
BIGGIE SMALLS, aka the Notorious B.I.G., was a rap icon.