Text Structure
What is cause and effect?
What happens and why it happens
What is a noun?
Person, place, thing, idea
What is an idiom? Not an example
A phrase that does not mean what it says
What does frighten mean?
to make afraid
What is a character?
A person or animal in a story
What is description?
When the author writes in great detail to get the main idea across
What is a verb?
an action word
Give an example of an idiom
Couch Potato
What does pernicious mean?
causing great damage or harm
What is the beginning of a story called?
Introduction or exposition
What is a compare and contrast?
seeing how things are alike and different
Is 'he' a noun or a pronoun?
Pronoun
Give an example of Onomatopoeia
BANG
What does auspicious mean?
promising success
What is a setting of a story?
Where the story takes place
What is problem and solution?
What is an adverb?
a word that modifies/describes a verb
What is personification?
Giving human traits and qualities to a nonhuman thing
What does squander mean?
to spend foolishly
What is the climax of a story?
the part with the highest amount of action or suspense
What is a sequence?
putting events in the order they happen
What is an adjective?
A word/phrase that modifies or describes a noun
What is a simile?
A comparison using the words like or as
What does knack mean?
a clever or skillful way of doing something
Draw and label the plot line/plot mountain
Introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution