Literary Elements
What is the term for the main character in a story?
What is a protagonist?
What part of speech describes a person, place, thing, or idea?
What is a noun?
What does the word "enormous" mean?
What is very large?
What is the main idea of a text?
What is the most important point or concept?
What is a topic sentence?
What is the sentence that states the main idea of a paragraph?
What do we call the struggle between opposing forces in a story?
What is conflict?
What do we call a word that modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb?
What is an adverb?
What is a synonym for "happy"?
What is joyful?
What does it mean to make an inference?
What is to draw a conclusion based on evidence and reasoning?
Why is it important to revise your writing?
What is to improve clarity, coherence, and correctness?
What is the setting of a story?
What is the time and place in which the story occurs?
What is the correct way to use apostrophes for possession?
What is adding an apostrophe followed by "s" for singular nouns (e.g., the dog's bone)?
What does "predict" mean in reading?
What is to make an educated guess about what will happen next?
What is a summary?
What is a brief statement of the main points of a text?
What is a conclusion in an essay?
What is the final paragraph that summarizes the main points?
What is a simile?
What is a figure of speech comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as"?
What is the difference between a complete sentence and a fragment?
A complete sentence has a subject and a verb; a fragment does not.
What does the prefix "un-" mean?
What is not or the opposite of?
How can you determine the author's purpose?
What is by analyzing the text's tone, style, and content?
What is a thesis statement?
What is a sentence that presents the main argument or claim in an essay?
What is the theme of a story?
What is the underlying message, lesson or main idea.
What is subject-verb agreement?
What is when the subject and verb in a sentence must match in number?
What is an antonym for "difficult"?
What is easy?
What is a "text feature"?
What are components like headings, captions, and graphs that help organize information?
What are transition words?
What are words or phrases that connect ideas and help the flow of writing?