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Narrative Elements 1
Narrative Elements 2
Figurative Language
Academic Vocabulary
Parts of Speech
100
The when and where a story takes place.
What is the setting.
100
When a story is told and narrated through the main character's perspective and uses the following pronouns: I, me, mine, myself, we, us, ours, ourselves
What is first person point of view.
100
A word that imitates the natural sounds of a thing. It creates a sound effect that mimics the thing being described, making the description more expressive and interesting. (Comic book words.)
What is onomatopoeia.
100
This vocabulary word means to say aloud or to repeat from memory.
What is to recite.
100
This part of speech is a person, place or thing.
What is a noun.
200
A struggle, problem, or obstacle that a character faces.
What is the conflict.
200
When the narrator doesn't refer to him or herself, and you get an observer's perspective of the story. Uses the following pronouns: he, she, it, him, her, his, hers, himself, herself, itself, they, them theirs, themselves
What is third person point of view.
200
The giving of human characteristic/traits to non-human objects.
What is personification.
200
This vocabulary word means stiff; not bending.
What is rigid.
200
This part of speech shows the action or state of being of the noun(s).
What is a verb.
300
A series of events in a narrative that gradually build up toward the climax.
What is the rising action.
300
Words that are spoken from one character to another character in the story. Quotation marks are used to set apart these character conversations from the rest of the narrated parts of the story.
What is dialogue.
300
A comparison of two things that uses like, as, or as if.
What is a simile.
300
This vocabulary word means to gradually get used to a new situation.
What is adjust.
300
This part of speech describes the nouns and/or pronouns.
What is an adjective.
400
The turning point of a story where the main character's actions change the direction of the story. (The highest peak of emotion, suspense, drama, or action in a story. The twist in the plot. The "oh snap" moment!)
What is the climax.
400
The technique an author uses in their writing that describes an occurrence in which a character remembers an earlier event that happened before the current timeline of the story.
What is a flashback.
400
A comparison that says one thing is something else, and does not use like or as.
What is a metaphor.
400
This vocabulary word means to desire, want, or feel as if you deserve what someone else has with regard to their advantages, success, possessions, etc.
What is envious.
400
This part of speech describes verbs, adjectives and other adverbs and most have an –ly ending = quickly, happily, suddenly, etc.
What is an adverb.
500
The outcome or solution to the problem and brings the story to an end.
What is the resolution.
500
The technique an author uses in their writing that may hint at events that will occur later in the story.
What is foreshadowing.
500
A way of describing something by saying it is much bigger, smaller, worse, etc. than it actually is. This is an extreme exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole.
500
This vocabulary word describes the quality or state of being alone or far-off from society.
What is solitude.
500
This part of speech identifies more specifically the name of person, a place or an event, which are always capitalized.
What is a proper noun.