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Story Structure
Literary Devices
Grammar
Books
Writing
100
People, animals etc. that the story is about.
What is characters
100
Bzzzzz, ow, oink
What are onomatopoeias
100
Contains a subject and a predicate
What is a complete sentence
100
A boy is trying to find his father and sets out on his own with a tattered suitcase.
What is Bud Not Buddy
100
The sentence that tells the reader what the paragraph or essay is going to be about.
What is a topic sentence
200
Where and when a story takes place
What is setting
200
The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris Wheel
What is a simile
200
a group of words without a subject and predicate
What is a phrase
200
A boy must rescue his parents during the Revolutionary War.
What is Woods Runner
200
a group of sentences that have one main idea
What is a paragraph
300
What is wrong or what the character is trying to solve or overcome
What is the problem or conflict
300
His hope was a fragile seed.
What is a metaphor
300
a clause that can stand by itself
What is independent clause
300
A girl is displaced from her home because of her father's death. She must migrate to America.
What is Esperanza Rising
300
A paragraph that introduces the main idea and key points
What is an introductory paragraph
400
1st person, 3rd person
What is point of view
400
Tom tiptoed to town.
What is alliteration
400
a sentence which contains two subjects and two verbs
What is a compound sentence
400
Three sisters go to visit their mother whom they hardly know. They have adventures in California during the Civil Rights Movement.
What is One Crazy Summer
400
A paragraph that restates the main idea and key points making a conclusion
What is a concluding paragraph
500
What the author wants the reader to learn or what the main character learns; the lesson
What is theme
500
The car complained as the key turned.
What is personification.
500
a dependent clause and an independent clause joined together
What is a complex sentence
500
A teacher throws a computer out the window.
What is A Package for Mrs. Jewls
500
several paragraphs that stay true to a topic and give important facts and details
What is an essay