Elements of a Story
Literary Elements
Reading Strategies
Genre
What's App?
100

Events that happen in a story

PLOT

100

What is a simile?

A comparison between 2 or more things USING 'like' or 'as'

100

We make a logical guess based on evidence from the text. 

INFERENCE

100

Stories about factual things that happened in real life.

Non-fiction

100

Name the opposite term to Tone, which has to do with the way the narrator feels about events.

MOOD: Reader's emotions

200

The main problem(s) that is highlighted in a story.

CONFLICT

200

What is a stanza?

Verses in a poem

200

When you are to read a story and relate it to your personal life.

Connection

200
Stories that has to do with outer space, extra terrestrial things, extraordinary technology

Science Fiction

200

What 'term' is opposite to protagonist, or the main character in the story that is usually the 'good' guy/girl.

Antagonist: The character that opposes the protagonist.

300

The highest or turning point in a story

CLIMAX

300

An example of onomatopoeia

BOOM BOOM POW SWOOSH BANG

300

You must show proof from the text to support your answer 

Cite evidence

300

Examples of this genre is free verse, haiku, sonnet, acrostic

POETRY

300

In characterization, what the opposite of a flat character?

Round character: Who evolves in a the story

400

The beginning of a story where the main character, setting, and conflict is being introduced

EXPOSITION

400

What is personification? DO NOT GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE!

Using human characteristics on non-living things. 

400

When reading, you are to highlight, take notes, write down questions and comments on the side margins

Annotate

400

Stories usually start with 'Once Upon a Time' about imaginary being and magical lands.

Fairy Tale

400

Opposite to 'metaphor'

SIMILE

500

The French word that also means the falling action or events in the story that happen after the climax

Denouement

500

Example of Alliteration

My mom made me mash my M&Ms

500

What does SOAPSTone stand for?

Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, Tone

500

Stories that has to do with finding clues to a crime. Eg: Sherlock Holmes

MYSTERY

500

Foreshadowing means to provide hints of what's going to happen in the future of the story. What's the opposite term?

Flashback!