Elements
of a Story
of a Story
Where and when a story takes place.
What is the setting?
What is literal meaning?
Passages that are stories, dramas, or poems.
What are literary texts/ literature?
Based on facts, without feelings or opinions.
What is objective?
The age in which members of the community get a bike.
The series of major events that form a story.
What is the plot?
When a writer describes an object as if it were a person. Example - The trees sighed in the afternoon breeze.
What is personification?
What is to be explicit?
Retell a story with accurate details about the main characters, setting, and key plot events.
What is to summarize?
The head of the Community.
Who is the Chief Elder?
The solution to the problem or the end of the main dramatic conflict.
What is the resolution?
An exaggeration beyond belief. example - I am dying laughing from all these stupid jokes.
What is a hyperbole?
Come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in a text.
What is inference?
The order in which events in a story take place.
What is sequence/ sequential order?
What does Jonas’s mother do for a living?
What is she works for the department of justice?
The perspective from which a story is being told.
An implied or indirect reference to something like mythology, biblical, historical, etc., especially in literature.
What is an allusion?
The lesson or message the author is trying to share through the story.
What is the theme?
An overview of a passage that captures the main points but does not give every detail and does not include opinions.
What is an objective summary?
Jonas’s mother discourages Lily from becoming a Birthmother because...
What is the position holds very little honor in the society?
The way an author develops a character over the course of a passage.
What is characterization?
A quirky expression or saying that is specific to a language. Example - "I've been on cloud nine all day!"
What is an idiom?
Noting a relationship between actions or events such that one or more are the result of the other or others.
What is cause-and-effect?
The most important point or idea that the author is making in a passage.
What is the central idea?
Where did the Giver get his wisdom?
What is from memories transmitted by the previous Receiver?