Plot Elements
The problem of the story.
What is Conflict?
Comparing two things using "like" or "as".
Example: Life is like a dream.
What is a Simile?
Language used by writers to create pictures in the minds of readers.
What is Imagery?
The reason or intent for writing.
Examples: To persuade, to entertain, to inform.
What is Author's Purpose?
Words that mean the same, or almost the same thing.
What are Synonyms?
When the problem is solved.
What is Resolution?
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as".
Example: Life is a dream.
What is Metaphor?
The main idea or underlying meaning of a story.
What is Theme?
Using your prior knowledge and clues from the text to make an educated guess.
What is Inferencing?
A word part that attaches to the beginning of a word.
What is Prefix?
The most exciting part of the story.
What is Climax?
The formation of a word from a sound.
Example: Pop! The balloon was too close to the pin.
What is Onomatopoeia?
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is Point of View?
Hints found within a passage that a reader can use to understand the meaning of
What are Context Clues?
Writing that is based on facts.
What is Nonfiction?
The building up of events in the story.
What is Rising Action?
The repeated use of the same first sound in a group of words.
Example: She sells seashells by the seashore.
What is Alliteration?
An indication or hint of what is to come later in the story.
What is Foreshadow?
Finding the big picture concept or central point of a passage.
What is Identifying Main Idea?
An account of a person's life written by that person.
What is an Autobiography?
The events that happen after the most exciting part of the story.
What is Falling Action?
Exaggerated statements not meant to be taken literally.
Example: I almost died laughing.
What is Hyperbole?
A transition in a story to an earlier time.
What is Flashback?
To express the most important facts or ideas of a passage in a short and clear form.
What is Summarize?
When human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman things.
What is Personification?