Plot/Summary
You find this at the beginning of a plot line.
What are characters and setting?
What is it?
"The lights are as bright at the sun!"
What is a simile?
The two categories of character traits.
What are inside and outside traits?
What is theme?
Lines of a poem are grouped together in these.
What are stanzas?
The second element found on the plot line.
What is rising action?
That boy is a Tasmanian devil!
What is a metaphor?
The type of trait:
The girl's long hair hung heavily past her shoulders.
What are outside traits?
Which of the following represents a theme:
Susan
Friendship
School
What is friendship?
How many lines does the following poem have?
Oh, if you're a bird, be an early bird
and catch the worm for your breakfast plate.
If you're a bird, be an early bird,
but if you're a worm, sleep late.
What is 4?
The third element on a plot line.
What is the climax?
I heard the bees buzzing all around the flower garden.
What is onomatopoeia?
The boy, tired of the bully picking on anyone who looked weak, got in between the two and said, "If you want to hurt him, you'll have to go through me."
Outside Trait
The statement represent theme (true or false):
"I believe in you Wilbur, and that's all that matters."
True (friendship, love)
Poets use this type of language in their writing.
What is figurative language?
What is the 4th element on the plot line?
What is falling action?
"I don't want to die!" cried Wilbur.
What is personification?
Compare and contrast is when we take two characters to see how they are alike or different.
Name one way Wilbur and Fern are alike?
(answers will vary, teacher determines correctness)
It teaches him/her a moral or lesson.
True or False:
Readers can only feel one emotion about a poem.
False
A paragraph that tells a reader important details about the beginning, middle, and end of a story.
What is the summary?
What does the simile mean:
"The student felt as light as a feather as soon as her presentation was over."
What is feeling relieved (or similar answer)?
True or False:
Outside traits can sometimes show readers what a character's inside traits are.
What is true?
True or false: Asking yourself what the character learned can help you determine the theme.
What is true?
Which lines rhyme:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet,
And so are you.
What are lines 2 and 4?