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Story Elements
Titles
Grammar
Poetry
Non-fiction
100
The people about whom the story is written or action centers around
What is characters
100
Gary Paulsen's book about nature and sled dogs
What is Woodsong
100
Find the simple subject: The ornaments on the tree look so festive.
What is ornaments
100
The name for the sensory details in a poem
What is imagery
100
The details used to support an idea
What is evidence
200
Where the story takes place
What is setting
200
Helen Wieman Bledsoe's article about the excavation of a Chinese emperor's tomb
What is "Digging Up the Past"
200
Find the simple predicate: We lit the candles on each night of Hanukkah.
What is lit
200
An extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole
200
A fact expressed in number form
What is statistic
300
The problem that the main character faces in a story
What is conflict
300
A poem using onomatopoeia about a baseball game
What is "Analysis of Baseball"
300
Find the verb phrase: We really should not have been watching that movie instead of studying.
What is should have been
300
A group of lines in a poem
What is a stanza
300
The missing question: who, what, when, why, how
What is where
400
The height of the action in a story
What is the climax
400
Henry Longfellow's poem about a man working
What is "The Village Blacksmith"
400
Find the prepositional phrase: The gifts are hidden in the closet.
What is in the closet
400
A comparison between two things that doesn't use like or as
What is Metaphor
500
The name for the words exchanged between characters in a story
What is dialogue
500
A non-fiction article about the intelligence of birds
What is "Bird Brains"
500
Find the pronoun: She couldn't wait to relax and enjoy winter break.
What is she
500
The word that we call the person whose voice is telling the poem to the reader
What is speaker