Figurative Language
These are used to compare the likeness of two things using "like" or "as."
"He is as brave as a lion."
What is a simile?
These are made up stories that contain imaginary characters and events.
What is fiction?
This is a word that can take the place of a noun. It can function by itself or refer to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the story.
She...He...I...Me...You...Someone...Everybody...They
What is a pronoun?
This sentence makes a statement.
"My favorite flavor of ice cream is chocolate."
What is a declarative sentence?
Someone who takes part in the action of a story.
What is the character?
This is used to symbolically suggest that two things are alike, when they are completely unrelated.
"A blanket of snow covered the ground."
"Her hair was silk."
What is a metaphor?
These stories often rhyme, use sounds and word choices to express ideas, and inspire thoughts and feelings
What is poetry?
These are used to describe nouns or pronouns.
Pretty...Red...Smart...Old...Tall...Quiet...Nice
What are adjectives?
This sentence gives a command.
"Take out the trash, please."
What is an imperative sentence?
The time and place in which the story takes place. Authors often use descriptions of landscape, scenery, buildings, seasons or weather to provide a strong sense of this.
What is the setting?
These phrases describe a thing or action by imitating the sound it makes.
"Boom!" "Buzz" "Roar" "Splat"
What is onomatopoeia?
This is a story about a person's life that is written by someone else.
What is a biography?
These are used to describe a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. They tell us how, where, when, how much, or what frequency.
Quietly...Above...Now...Fairly...Sometimes
What are adverbs?
This sentence expresses emotion or importance. Ends in an exclamation mark (!)
"I just won the race!"
What is an exclamatory sentence?
The struggle between two people or things in a story. The struggle usually involves the main character and another character, force of nature, society, or internal feeling.
What is the conflict?
Human qualities are given to inanimate objects or things using this.
"The sun smiled at me."
"The leaves danced in the wind."
What is personification?
This type of story is real or factual, meaning that the story actually happened.
What is nonfiction?
This is a word placed before a noun or pronoun and connects to a verb or adverb to form a phrase.
About...Before...With...By...From...To...On...Under...In
What is a preposition?
This sentence ask a question. Ends in a question mark (?)
"Will you come to my birthday party?"
What is an interrogative sentence?
This is the central idea or underlying meaning of a story. The author may use his/her own thoughts about a topic to portray this idea or meaning.
What is the theme?
This is a sentence or phrase with words that begin with the same letter or sound.
"Morgan Mouse munched marshmallows merrily."
"Kim came to cut Chris's colorful kite."
What is alliteration?
These stories are made up and include ideas that could not happen in real life. They often involve magical or supernatural elements.
What is a fantasy?
This joins words, phrases, or clauses.
And...But...Or...Because...While
What is a conjunction?
These are sentences that contain two or more sentences that the writer has not separated with a punctuation mark or conjunction.
"Please turn the light off we are trying to watch a movie the light is distracting us."
What is a run-on sentence?
These sentences or phrases begin and end with quotation marks. This lets the reader know who is speaking and what they are saying.
"I don't like carrots," Sally replied.
What is dialogue?