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Figurative Language
Non-Fiction
Story Elements
Fiction
You Should Know
100
Words that are sounds.
What is onomotopoeia?
100
A genre where a person writes about his or her life. Includes the thoughts and feelings of that person.
What is an autobiography?
100
The story element that creates suspense throughout a story
What is the conflict?
100
The time and place a story takes place.
What is setting?
100
What the story is mainly about.
What is main idea?
200
"She is as beautiful as a rose" is an example of...
What is a simile?
200
A story about someone's life written by another person. Will have more facts than feelings and emotions.
What is a biography?
200
The part of the plot arc where the conflict intensifies and builds the most suspense
What is rising action?
200
The most exciting part of a story.
What is the climax?
200
The way an author feels about his subject.
What is tone?
300
"I am as hungry as a bear" is an example of...
What is a hyperbole?
300
A strategy used to read non-fiction.
What is use text features (graphs, pictures, captions, titles, etc.)
300
The character in a story rolls her eyes when asked to do her chores. What is the attitude of that character towards chores?
potential answers: unenthusiastic disagreeable uninterested
300
The ending of a story.
What is the resolution?
300
The feeling the author creates in a story.
What is mood?
400
"The chair jumped across the room" is an example of...
What is personification?
400
Look at these four text features in order to get an initial central idea of a nonfiction text.
What are title, headings, topic sentences, and concluding sentences.
400
These are the four main types of conflict
internal (character vs. self) external (character vs character) external (character vs. society) external (character vs. nature)
400
Point of view that uses "I".
What is first person?
400
A multiple choice question should never take longer than this to complete
What is two minutes?
500
"The road was a ribbon of red" is an example of...
What is a metaphor?
500
We can identify theme three ways
1 - change in character 2 - emotions/emotional reaction to conflict 3 - behavioral reaction to a conflict
500
Five different ways the author reveals his characters.
What is what the characters says, what the character does, what the character thinks, how the character looks, and what others say about the character?
500
What you should do before reading a passage. Reading the passage should take ________ minutes. Writing a short response should take ________ minutes.
What is read the questions? What is five minutes? What is seven minutes?