FIGURATIVE LANGAUGE
What is a comparison of two unlike items using the words like and as?
What is a simile?
What is an external conflict?
The beginning of the story where the author establishes the setting (time and place), introduces the main characters, and provides necessary background information.
What is the exposition
An imaginative story that is based off things that could really happen.
Realistic Fiction
The golden afternoon sun bathed the orchards of Monticello in a warm, honeyed light, while the joyful sounds of children’s laughter drifted up from the vegetable gardens below. Thomas Jefferson stood near a trellis of blooming sweet peas.
What is Historical Fiction.
What is an extravagant exaggeration that cannot possibly be true?
What is hyperbole?
Macy wants to join the softball team but is afraid she won't make the cut.
What is an internal conflict?
The final outcome is revealed and the main character typically has learned a lesson.
Resolution
An imaginative story that imagines how humanity might react to changes in technology or the natural world in the future.
What is Science Fiction
Tall, silver-leafed trees stretched toward the stars, their bark glowing with a soft, ancient light that never faded. Elven archers moved like shadows across bridges woven from living vines, their footsteps making no sound against the moss.
What is Fantasy Fiction?
What are repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words called?
What is alliteration?
“I can’t miss this interview,” Sierra thought as traffic crawled to a halt on the highway.
What is external conflict?
The events that follow the climax as the story begins to wind down. It shows the consequences of the character's choices and starts tying up loose ends.
The falling action
An imaginative story created with events that can not take place in real life, may include elves and/or animals that can talk.
Fantasy
The massive steel shutters slid open to reveal a sky filled with three glowing moons. Neon signs hummed along the metal walkways, casting bright blue shadows over the crowd of robots and travelers.
What is giving human qualities to non-living things?
What is personification?
Jack hears rain tapping on his window and thunder in the distance. He needs to get to the bus but is afraid he might slip in the rain.
What is internal conflict.
The part of the story that consisting of a series of events that build tension and complicate the protagonist's journey. Here, the character faces obstacles while attempting to resolve the central conflict.
Rising Action
An imaginative story that has a realistic setting that took place in the past and might have characters that existed in the past that were famous.
Historical Fiction
The New York towering skyscrapers of glass and steel reach high above the thick, yellow smog of the lower city. Transparent vacuum tubes crisscross between the buildings, carrying high-speed pods filled with silent commuters.
What is Science Fiction?
What is a comparison of two unlike things that implies one thing is similar to another? Uses the words is, are, were, and was.
What is a metaphor?
Traffic crawled to a standstill, and Sierra’s chest tightened. If she missed this interview, it would confirm what she secretly feared: that she always found a way to fall short.
What is internal conflict?
The turning point. This is the "peak" where the main character faces the primary conflict head-on and must make a life-altering choice
Climax
The humid Philadelphia air hung thick with the smell of woodsmoke and roasted malt. Near the entrance of the American Philosophical Society, a crowd gathered around a man. Benjamin Franklin stood there, leaning on a walking stick and debating a printer’s apprentice.
Historical fiction?
The afternoon sun filtered through the dusty windows of the local library, landing in bright squares on the worn carpet.
Realistic Fiction