Parts of speech
A person place or thing
Noun
Examples are a period, an exclamation point or a question mark.
Punctuation
A comparison made between two things using words such as "like" and "as"
A statement as part of an argument that can be supported by evidence
Claim
When the author uses language such as "I looked into my bag and pulled out my notebook" The story is being told in this point of view.
First-person
An action word
A sentence that goes on and on and on and on and on and on and probably could have stopped a while ago but just didn't.
Run-on sentence
A comparison made between two things WITHOUT using words such as "like" or "as".
Metaphor
Examining two or more objects in order to determine similarities and differences
Compare
This is what we call the narrator of a poem.
Speaker
A type of word that replaces a noun when referring to a specific person. (Examples are he, she, they, them)
Pronoun
When a comma is inappropriately placed in the wrong spot.
Comma-Splice
A clash between two characters or groups of characters
Conflict
A character that undergoes an important change over the course of the story
Dynamic character
Another name for the main character in a story
Protagonist
A descriptive word
Adjective
When two words are pushed together into one. (For example "I am" becomes "I'm". "You are" becomes "You're".)
Contraction
The decisive moment or turning point of a story in which rising action becomes falling action.
Climax
A character that does not change significantly. They stay relatively the same.
Static character
When a phrase brings together two completely opposite words (EXAMPLE: "That was bittersweet." "That movie was awfully good!")
Oxymoron
A word that adds description to a verb
adverb
When a story is told in this tense, everything has already happened. (EXAMPLE: Spot ran past the market and the crowd looked on wildly.)
Past tense
The insertion of background information about characters, plot, setting and more at the beginning of a narrative.
Exposition
An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.
Utopia
Mr. Marro's favorite Pizza
PINEAPPLE!