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The words that describe a character, setting, event, etc.
What are details?
100
Where and when a story happens.
What is setting?
100
As I read the sentence "The brook burbled along the forest stones, and the sun shone on its surface through the branches of the green trees," I could really picture what the author was describing.
What is imagery?
100
For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
What are conjunctions?
100
Our sixteenth president, who is responsible for the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
The perspective from which the story is told.
What is point of view?
200
The main problem in the story that the main character has to face.
What is conflict?
200
Harry Potter, because is the hero of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone".
What is the protagonist?
200
An incomplete sentence.
What is a fragment?
200
This type of animal is covered in hair, gives birth to live babies, and nurses their young.
What are mammals?
300
Descriptive or figurative language that is used to create a word picture in a reader's mind.
What is imagery?
300
When a main character tells a story using words like "I" and "me".
What is first person point of view?
300
Elton John's words give me hope: "Some day out of the blue In a crowded street or a deserted square I'll turn and I'll see you As if our love were new Some day we can start again, some day soon"
What is mood?
300
You should always capitalize this type of noun.
What is a proper noun?
300
This "British Invasion" band of the 1960s was made up of Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. They were responsible for such #1 hits as "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "All You Need is Love", and "Yellow Submarine".
What is The Beatles?
400
A narrator who is not a character tells the story, using words like "he" and "she".
What is third person point of view?
400
The main character in a book; the hero
What is protagonist?
400
Neil Gaiman writes, "There are four simple ways for the observant to tell Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar apart: first, Mr. Vandemar is two and a half heads taller than Mr. Croup; second, Mr. Croup has eyes of a faded china blue, while Mr. Vandemar's eyes are brown; third, while Mr. Vandemar fashioned the rings he wears on his right hand out of the skulls of four ravens, Mr. Croup has no obvious jewelery; fourth, Mr. Croup likes words, while Mr. Vandemar is always hungry. Also, they look nothing at all alike."
What are details?
400
Two or more complete sentences that are joined without a comma and a conjunction, or without a semicolon. Ex: I went to the market and I bought some bread.
What is a run-on sentence?
400
Name the missing adjective in this book by Laura Ingalls Wilder, "__________ House on the Prairie."
What is "Little"?
500
A character, symbol, story patter, or other element that is common to human experience across cultures and that frequently occurs in literature, myth, and folklore.
What is an archetype?
500
The emotion of a story based on how the author writes and what the author writes about; it's the feeling a reader gets from a story.
What is mood?
500
Simba from the Lion King, and Luke Skywalker from Star Wars, both lose a parent in a tragic accident. They are then forced to leave home and go on an adventure. This pattern of losing a parent and then going on an adventure is also found in other stories, like Spiderman and Superman.
What is archetype?
500
This is a part of speech; these words connect words, phrases, and clauses.
What are conjunctions?
500
The three branches of the United States government are the executive branch, the legislative branch, and this branch.
What is the judicial branch?