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STORY ELEMENTS
LITERARY TECHNIQUES
GENRE
VOCABULARY
WORD STUDY
100
Who the story is about.
What is the character/main character?
100
Example: The student had his head on his desk and his eyes were closed. I thought the student was tired.
What is an inference?
100
Story with larger-than-life characters, humor, and exaggeration.
What is a tall tale?
100
a root for "heat"
What is therm?
100
Used to find definitions, parts of speech, and word origins.
What is a dictionary?
200
Where the story takes place.
What is the setting?
200
Example: Some people use umbrellas on rainy days.
What is a generalization?
200
Stories about gods and goddesses.
What are myths?
200
a root for star
What is aster?
200
A prefix that means "again."
What is re-?
300
The events in the story.
What is the plot?
300
The feeling or attitude conveyed by the writer.
What is tone?
300
The genre that tells true experiences, factual information, and includes newspapers and articles.
What is nonfiction?
300
means "the study of"
What is logy?
300
The part of speech that describes a verb.
What is an adverb?
400
The problem in the story.
What is the conflict?
400
When objects are given human qualities.
What is personification?
400
Examples of this genre include haiku, cinquain, free verse, and acrostic.
What is poetry?
400
A word that has the same or similar meaning.
What is a synonym?
400
Used to determine the meaning of a word by reading around the word.
What are context clues?
500
Another term for the solution to the problem in the story.
What is the resolution?
500
When the story/plot is interrupted and the character recalls something from the past.
What is a flashback?
500
This genre requires the readers to speak different parts and includes stage directions.
What is drama?
500
Words that start with the same sound (example: she sells sea shells by the sea shore).
What is alliteration?
500
A word that is an opposite.
What is an antonym.