Narrative
Story Elements
Figurative Language
Informational
Text Structures
100

The person telling the story.

What is a narrator?

100

Time and place of a story.

What is setting?

100

A comparison using like or as.

What is a simile?

100

What the text is mostly about.

What is central idea?

100

An author explains/tells about a topic, event, or person.

 

What is description?

200

What the character is feeling or thinking about what is happening in the story

What is perspective?

200

The people or animals in a story.

What are characters?

200

A comparison NOT using like or as.

What is a metaphor?

200

Graphs, Illustrations, Photos, Captions, Titles, Headings, Subheadings, Timelines, Diagrams, Footnotes, Glossary, Bolded Words, Table of Contents

What are text features?

200

Events described in order of which they happened.

What is chronological?

300

The message or lesson in a story.

What is theme?

300

The main issue or struggle a main character faces in a story.

What is a conflict?

300

An extreme exaggeration

Hyperbole

300

Details from a text that support a claim.

What is evidence?

300

An author describes similarities and differences of two or more topics.

What is compare and contrast?

400

1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person



What is point of view?

400

The events that make up a story or the story line.

What is plot?

400
Giving human qualities to non-human objects.

What is personification?

400

A statement the author makes that is supported with facts/details.

What is a claim?

400

An author presents a conflict and explains the resolution.

What is problem and solution?

500

Retelling the main events in story

What is summarizing?

500

The way an author develops a character throughout the story?

What is characterization?

500
An expression or phrase that does not mean the same thing as the literal words.

What is an idiom?

500

What are the 3 author's purposes?

The why an author is writing.

Persuade

Inform

Entertain

500
An author describes how something occurs as a result of something else.

What is cause and effect?

1000

Give all 5 parts of a plot diagram.

Exposition

Rising Action

Climax

Falling Action

Resolution

1000

Name all story elements that we take notes on

Setting

Events

Characters/Characterization

Conflict

Theme

Plot

1000

Give an example of each of the following types of figurative language:

Simile

Metaphor

Idiom

Hyperbole

Personification

:) or :(

1000

Name 10 Text Features for 1000 points!

Possible Answers:

(Title, Headings, Subheadings, Table of Contents, Glossary, Bold words, Photograph, Illustration, Chart, Graph, Map, Diagram, Footnote, Timeline, Sidebar, etc)

1000

Name all 6 Text Structures

Description 

Cause and Effect

Problem and Solution

Compare and Contrast

Chronological

Sequence