Plot Events
Exposes the reader to the characters and setting
What is EXPOSITION?
Details from the text used to support your answer.
What is EVIDENCE?
Comparing one thing to another using "like" or "as"
What is a SIMILE?
Genre characterized by stanzas and rhyme schemes.
What is POETRY?
The person or character telling the story.
What is a NARRATOR?
The "turning point" in a story.
What is CLIMAX?
The purpose of this type of writing is to tell a story.
What is NARRATIVE?
Comparing two different things without using "like" or "as"
What is a METAPHOR?
Has gods or goddesses and often accounts for how something came to be.
What is MYTH?
The main idea or lesson that the author wants the reader to take away from the story.
What is THEME?
When the conflict is revealed and events begin to happen.
What is RISING ACTION?
This type of writing has the writer state a CLAIM and support that claim with CLEAR REASONS and RELEVANT EVIDENCE.
What is ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING?
A form of figurative language when something NON-HUMAN is given HUMAN-LIKE qualities.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
Fiction that is based on a person's life or a historical event.
What is HISTORICAL FICTION?
The talking that goes on between characters.
What is DIALOGUE?
The "problem" that characters must deal with.
What is CONFLICT?
Immediately after the writer uses a piece of evidence, he/she must do this.
What is EXPLAIN THE EVIDENCE?
An obvious exaggeration that intended for effect.
What is HYPERBOLE?
Writing that is meant to be acted out on a stage.
What is a DRAMA? or PLAY
The perspective from with the author chooses to tell the story.
What is POINT OF VIEW?
When the conflict is resolved and the story ends.
What is RESOLUTION?
The writer must use this to introduce their evidence.
What is a SENTENCE STARTER?
The meaning of a word associated with a certain idea or feeling.
What is CONNOTATION?
A very short story that has a moral or life lesson; usually has talking animals as main characters
What is FABLE?
The act of creating and developing a character; reveals characters' personalities through description, interaction with other characters, and through dialogue.
What is CHARACTERIZATION?