Nonfiction
This is the term for the way an author organizes the information in their text.
What is text structure?
This is the life lesson the author wishes to teach readers through their story.
What is theme?
This is the turning point in a story.
What is the climax?
This is a word that shows how two things are related.
Ex: The squirrel is next to the tree.
What is a preposition?
This is a type of figurative language that gives human characteristics to something that is not human.
Ex: The grass danced in the wind.
What is personification?
This is the text structure in which an author tells readers about an issue and gives examples of how to resolve it.
Ex: Microplastics litter our oceans which leads to the destruction of underwater habitats. If we use less single-use plastics, we can help preserve our oceans.
What is problem and solution?
These are the three things included in the exposition of a story.
What is character, setting, and a hint at the conflict?
This is the part of the plot where the problem begins.
What is the inciting incident?
This is the type of sentence in which there are two independent clauses connected by a comma and conjunction (FANBOYS).
What is a compound sentence?
This is the term for a paragraph in poetry.
What is stanza?
These are the three main purposes of nonfiction texts.
What is persuade, inform, entertain?
These are three big things that develop the plot of a fiction story.
What are characters, setting, and conflict?
This is the part of the story where the main character tries and fails to solve the problem multiple times.
What is the rising action?
These are the five things a sentence needs in order to be complete.
What is a capital letter, subject, verb, punctuation, and a complete thought?
This is a line in a play that is not read aloud. It is typically written in brackets or italics and tells the actor how to say something or gives them an action to do.
What is stage directions?
This is a text structure in which the author lists how things happen in a logical order.
What is chronological order?
This is the purpose of fiction texts.
What is to entertain?
This is a nonlinear plot element where an author shows you something that happened before the story began.
What is a flashback?
This is what FANBOYS stands for.
What is for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?
This is the literary device where an author hints at something that will happen in the future.
What is foreshadowing?
This is the special type of nonfiction that is written in the form of a story.
What is literary nonfiction?
This is a subgenre of fiction that includes magical elements like dragons, wizards, or other things that don't exist in real life.
What is fantasy?
This is the type of conflict that occurs when a character struggles with some kind of force outside of themselves.
What is external conflict?
This is the type of sentence that includes an independent clause and dependent clause connected by a comma and conjunction (FANBOYS).
What is a complex sentence?
This is the point of view that uses pronouns like "he", "she", "they" and shows the perspective of multiple characters.
What is third person omniscient?