Elements of Fiction
Conflict is faced head on/culminates.
What is the climax?
Text located near a graphic feature (such as a picture, map, diagram, etc.) that explains what it is.
What is the caption?
This tells the story of a young man who destroys the environment for profit.
What is "The Lorax"?
These contain the dialogue of the characters and inside the panel. Each one has a “tail,” which points to who is speaking the dialogue.
What is a speech balloon/bubble?
The man held the blanket like a memory.
What is a simile?
Life lesson, meaning, moral, or message about life or human nature that is communicated by a literary work.
What is the theme?
Located at the back of the book; specific topics, events, names, and terms listed in alphabetical order with page numbers; more specific than the table of contents.
What is the index?
A man witnesses a plane crash while he is in school.
What is "Bus Stop"?
Children’s stories that are usually magical and about imaginary beings and land.
What is a fairytale?
Her hope was a fragile seed.
What is a metaphor?
Readers will be able to infer characters’ thoughts and motivations based on their actions and dialogue; however, the narrator will not explicitly reveal character’s thoughts and/or motivations in narration.
Third-person Objective.
Located at the back of the book, an alphabetical listing of text-important words with definitions. Helps the reader with vocabulary.
What is the glossary?
This person reminisces about life was like when they were younger. Things seemed simpler then.
What is "When Movies Cost a Nickel"?
These texts convey meaning through combinations of written, visual, audio, and gestures.
What are multimodal texts?
When a reader knows or understands more about the situation than a character.
What is dramatic irony?
This element helps you visualize the text. It allows you to form expectations about the world.
What is the setting?
A hand-created sketch; this image is drawn. Helps the reader visualise real events, steps, or objects described in the text.
What is an illustration?
This tells the story of a young boy who goes hunting with his father. One day, he realises he doesn't like hunting anymore.
What is "Consorting with Frogs"?
This is the space between comic panels.
These spaces can be large or small, impacting how easy it is to read the pages.
What is the gutter?
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
What is alliteration?
This type of character undergoes a significant change in the story.
What is a dynamic character?
A small photo, picture, or map inside or next to a larger picture; magnifies a part of the larger picture.
What is an inset?
This tells the story of a young girl who makes a friend on the internet. They later discover this person is not who they seemed to be.
What is "The Mystery of the Cyber Friend"?
Non-fictional accounts of real life events, usually to document events for instruction, education, or historical purposes and in video format.
What is a documentary?
The attitude with which the speaker or narrator treats his or her subject.
What is tone?