What is theme?
The message/lesson in the story
What is the setting?
Where and when the story takes place.
Herd and heard are examples of...
homophones
1st person point of view-what key words do we see?
3rd person point of view-what key words do we see?
me, my, I, we, ours, us, myself
him, her, them, they, names
What is main idea?
What the story is mostly about?
How could a setting impact the plot. Give an example.
Teacher's Discretion.
Give and example of a Cause and Effect relationship.
Teacher's discretion
What do we call the solution in a story or how the story ends?
The resolution
What is an idiom?
A saying that means something different from its literal meaning
What is an author's perspective?
The way the person who wrote the story thinks and feels about a topic.
What does it mean to contrast things?
What does it mean to compare things?
Tell how they are different
Tell how they are similar/alike
What are three clue words for cause and effect?
As a result, therefore, because of, so, cause, effect
Give an example of a simile.
Teacher's discretion
What is a conflict?
problem / issue / argument
What does personification mean?
Giving human qualities to an animal or object
What is a proverb?
A wise piece of advice.
What is a metaphor?
Comparing 2 unlike things without using the words like or as
Give an example of words that are homographs.
Teacher's discretion
The root phob means fear, so what is someone with a phobia most likely to do?
laugh, scream, sigh, or yawn
Where does the suffix occur in a word?
Where does the prefix occur in a word?
At the very end
At the very beginning