LIT - Review

Story Parts

100

This is the main character in the story.

Protagonist

200

The time and place where a story happens.

Setting

300

The main problem or struggle in a story.

Conflict

400

What do we call the character, group, or force that opposes the main character?

Antagonist

500

This is the final part of the story, where the conflict is resolved.  

Resolution

Purpose

100

If an author wants to make you laugh, their purpose is to? 

Entertain

200

A news article that gives facts about a new law has this purpose.

to inform

300

If an author uses emotional words and strong arguments, what is their likely purpose?

persuade

400

What is the term for the people the writer is addressing with their writing?  

Target Audience

500

What is the acronym that can help you remember the three main purposes for writing?

PIE

Text Structure

100

This text structure tells about events in the order they happened.

Chronological order or sequence

200

A passage that explains how a problem is solved uses this text structure.

Problem and Solution

300

Name a text structure that compares how two things are alike and different.

Compare and Contrast

400

If a text describes the causes of an event and the results, what structure is it using?

Cause and Effect

500

This is what you do when you look closely at a text to understand it better.

Analyze or Analyzing

Figurative Language

100

This is a comparison that uses "like" or "as"

Simile

200

This is a direct comparison without using "like" or "as"

metaphor

300

This gives human qualities to something that is not human.

personification

400

This is an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally.

hyperbole

500

This is a phrase whose meaning is different from the literal meaning of the words, such as "break a leg".

Idiom

Lit - Mix

100

This is the message or lesson that the author wants readers to learn from a story.

Theme

200

When a story is told by a character using "I" or "we," it is written in this point of view.

First person

300

A word that shows the relationship between a noun (or pronoun) and another word in the sentence, like "under" or "beside" is a? 

preposition

400

What type of noun names a specific person, place, or thing and is always capitalized?

Proper

500

A short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.

Anecdote