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Literary Elements
Literary Elements Two
Central Idea
Autobiography and Biography
Write about it!
100
a struggle between opposing forces
What is conflict in a story?
100
People or animals who are involved in a conflict
What are characters?
100
The thing that a paragraph is all about
What is the topic?
100
autobiography and biography
What is two types of nonfiction?
100
Every paragraph has this type of sentence-a sentence that tells the main idea or topic.
What is a topic sentence?
200
a character struggles with some outside force
What is external conflict?
200
This sentence gives a command, makes a request, or gives directions, and usually ends with a period.
What is an imperative sentence?
200
The most important thing that the paragraph says about the topic
What is central idea?
200
Someone other than the subject of the story writes their story
Who writes a biography?"
200
This is made up a group of sentences that tell about one idea or thing.
What is a paragraph?
300
The sequence of events in a story.
What is plot?
300
The most emotional and intense part of a play
What is climax?
300
To discover the _______ _______, the reader must figure it out or can find it stated directly.
What is central idea?
300
The most personal kind of nonfiction and written by the same person who is in the story
What is an autobiography?
300
Every sentence in a paragraph must be in the correct order: Put these sentences in the correct order: He pulled my tooth. I went to the dentist. I had a toothache.
What is I had a toothache. I went to the dentist. He pulled my tooth?
400
The message about life found in the story
What is theme?
400
Most of the problems are worked out in a text
What is resolution?
400
supporting details
What are included to develop the central idea in a text?
400
This type of writing include events and conversations that actually happened, information from letters, journals, and firsthand accounts of the person, and details that could have happened in the person's life
What are biographies?
400
Which sentence DOES NOT belong in the following paragraph: For almost 5,000 years, cats have been kept as pets. Cats have a great sense of smell. They can't see as well as people though. Whiskers help them feel their way in the dark. Dogs make good pets. Kittens' eyes open within two weeks of birth.
What is "Dogs make good pets?"
500
The point of the story when the tension is greatest
What is climax?
500
Plays are broken into small parts (e.g. Rumpelstiltskin)
What are acts?
500
This organizing method help arrange the important details in a paragraph.
What is planning?
500
A story about a teacher written by the teacher's husband
What is a biography?
500
Identify the topic of the following paragraph and the sentence that DOES NOT belong: Basketball is an American game. It was invented in America. The first baskets were made from peach baskets. People like to play baseball.
What is Basketball; "People like to play baseball."