Story Elements
Grammar: Parts of Speech
Genres
Reading Skills
Punctuation
100

The people or animals in a story are called what?

What is characters?

100

What part of speech names a person, place or thing?

What is a noun?

100

A made-up story with talking animals is what genre? 

What is fable?

100
What do we call the main message or lesson in a story?

What is theme?

100

What punctuation mark ends a question?

What is a question mark?

200

Where and when a story takes place is called the...

What is setting?

200

What part of speech shows action?

What is a verb?

200

A story that teaches a moral or lesson is a...

What is a fable/folktale?

200

What do we call the most exciting part of the story?

What is climax?

200

What punctuation mark shows excitement?

What is an exclamation point (!)?

300

The problem in a story is also called the....

What is conflict? 

300

What part of speech describes a noun?

What is an adjective? 

300

What genre is a true story about someone's life?

What is a biography? 

300

''Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then" helps us with what skill?

a) summarize

b) make inferences

c) find the main idea

What is summarize? 


300

What do you put between items in a list? 

What is a comma (,)?

400

True or false: The solution is the lesson learned at the end of the story.

What is false?

THEME

400

What part of speech describes a verb, telling how or when?

What is an adverb?

400

What genre tells about real facts and information?

What is nonfiction? 

400

When you use clues + what you know to figure something out, what skill is that?

What is inference?

400

What punctuation shows someone is speaking?

What are quotation marks ("")?

500

Name all 5 parts of a plot diagram

What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?


500

What part of speech joins words or phrases together?

What is a conjunction? 

500

What is the difference between fiction and nonfiction? 

Fiction= made up

Nonfiction= real

500

What is the difference between fact and opinion?

Facts can be proven; opinions are what someone thinks.

500

What punctuation mark do you use to show possession or to make a contraction (combining two words to make one)?

What is an apostrophe (')?