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Parts of Speech
Parts of a Story
Parts of a Story Part 2
Writing
Sentences
100
This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun? Bonus: give an example of an idea noun.
100
This is the main character (usually a hero) of the story.
What is the protagonist? Bonus: Who is the protagonist of The Giver?
100
This is the term for the character who is telling the story.
What is narrator?
100
To show you are starting a new paragraph, you do this.
What is indent?
100
This is a the term for a sentence that provides information.
What is declarative?
200
This part of speech modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb.
What is an adverb?
200
This is the time and place of a story.
What is setting?
200
This is the point of greatest interest in a story - you begin to see the outcome.
What is the climax?
200
When copying someone else's words, you should use these.
What are quotation marks? Bonus: What is it called if you do not use quotation marks when copying someone else's words?
200
This is a sentence that only has one subject and verb pairing.
What is a simple sentence?
300
This part of speech joins words, phrases, or clauses together.
What is a conjunction?
300
The series of events that makes up a story is called this.
What is the plot?
300
This is the person or thing that opposes the main character (sometimes called the villain).
What is antagonist?
300
This is the name for the sentence that tells what your body paragraph is about; it is located at the beginning of your body paragraph.
What is topic sentence?
300
This is the name for a sentence error in which the writer does not write a complete sentence. Example: Although I studied for the test.
What is a fragment?
400
This part of speech shows a relationship between words. Examples include the following: for, under, after, in, towards.
What is a preposition?
400
This is the message the author of a work of literature is trying to send.
What is theme?
400
This is the problem or struggle in a story. (It moves along the plot).
What is conflict? Bonus: Name the two types of conflicts.
400
This is the number of ideas you should discuss in a paragraph.
What is one?
400
This is a sentence error in which the sentence contains too many ideas without enough punctuation or connecting words to join them.
What is a run-on?
500
List all the verbs that are acting like verbs in this sentence: Standing, John delivered his report, and then he asked to return to his seat.
What are delivered and asked?
500
This is the way an author approaches his topic or theme; for example, it could be playful, informal, serious, sarcastic, etc.
What is tone?
500
This is the final part of the plot where all the loose ends have been resolved. Hint: This is also the name for something people make each new year.
What is the resolution?
500
This is one of the two terms for the sentence in your introduction paragraph that tells what the whole essay is about.
What is a claim or thesis?
500
Which sentence type (simple, compound, or complex) is this: Before staring school in the fall, we need to read several books and write an essay.
What is simple?