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Points of View
Figurative Language
Figurative language Cont.
Elements of Plot
Surprise?
100
1st person point of view
What is it called when the narrator is involved in the action and uses "I"?
100
Imagery
What are descriptive words a writer uses to recreate sensory (sight, smell, sound, taste, feelings) experiences called?
100
Theme
What is the major idea of a story called?
100
Setting
What is the time and place a story takes place called?
100
Entertainment
What is the author's purpose for writing a fictional story?
200
2nd person point of view
What is it called when the narrator is directly talking to the reader by saying "you"?
200
Personification
What is giving human characteristics to non-human elements such as objects, animals, or ideas called?
200
Foreshadow
What is a writer's use of hint or clues, to indicate events that will occur in a story called?
200
Conflict
What is the main problem the protagonist faces that drives the entire story called?
200
Rhyme Schemes
What is the pattern of rhymes called in poetry?
300
3rd person limited point of view
What is it called when the narrator is NOT part of the story and only knows zero to one character's thoughts?
300
Analogy
What is a comparison between 2 things to show similarities between them called?
300
Irony
What is it called when the opposite happens of what is said or expected?
300
Climax
What is the most exciting point in the story called where you know the entire story is about to change?
300
Author's Purpose
What is the reason an author's writes something called?
400
3rd person omniscient point of view
What is it called when the narrator is NOT part of the story and knows all or most of the characters' thoughts.
400
Allusion
What is a reference to historical or fictional characters, places or events that the writer assumes the reader will recognize called?
400
Idiom
What is an expression that's meaning is different from the literal (actual) definition called? (Ex. It's raining cats and dogs.)
400
Exposition
What is the background information in a story called? (Includes setting, introduction of main character(s), and conflict.)
400
ABCB
What is the following rhyme scheme? If only you had whiskers Like the ones we kitties wear, you might just turn that sideways Then you wouldn't have to swear.--Ian Whybrow
500
Author's point of view or authors viewpoint
What is the author's opinion about his/her subject called?
500
Mood
What is the way the reader feels when reading a story called?
500
Oxymoron
What is a self-contradictory called. (Ex. I'm sick and tired of being the healthy one and never missing a day of school.)
500
Denouement/resolution
What is the untying of the knot or conflict, or how it all turns out called? (You need to list both terms.)
500
ABCCBBD
What is the rhyme scheme to the following poem? I'm admired for my ears. Three cheers. I'm admired for my paws. Applause. And if somebody chased the cat, And if somebody chewed the mat, And if somebody jumped the wall, And punctured next-door neighbor's ball, It wasn't me.