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Prose
Plot & Setting
Theme & Pt. of View
Nonfiction Skills
Poetry
100
Prose is divided into these two categories.
What are fiction and nonfiction?
100
This is the definition of setting.
What is the time and place in which the story takes place?
100
This is the definition of theme.
What is the life lesson or the moral taught through a story?
100
This is when I discuss the similarities and differences between two things.
What is compare and contrast?
100
A narrative poem
What is a poem that tells a story and has a plot, setting, and characters
200
When writers put events in sequence, or in the order in which they actually happened it is called...
What is chronological order?
200
A struggle between two opposing characters, forces or emotions.
What is conflict?
200
This is the definition of point of view.
What is "who is narrating the story"?
200
This is the most important point of a piece of nonfiction.
What is the main idea?
200
The author helps us see, hear, touch, taste and smell different things using this poetic device.
What is imagery?
300
This is a nonfiction book about the whole story of a person's life written by another person.
What is a biography?
300
This is the definition of climax.
What is "the turning point of the story or the point in which the conflict is decided one way or another"?
300
Is this a good theme? EXPLAIN WHY OR WHY NOT. The theme of "Seventh Grade" by Gary Soto is to scowl at girls because they might like you.
What is: "No, this is not a good theme because it is too specific to the story. Themes should be a general lesson we can apply to our lives."?
300
Something that happened or is true.
What is a fact?
300
The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together.
What is alliteration?
400
Three examples of types of fiction are
What are (short stories, novels, novellas and folk tales)?
400
Hints or clues about what will happen later, and this helps create suspense.
What is foreshadowing?
400
I am not a character in the story. I know the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
What is omniscient narrator (or point of view)?
400
When we read nonfiction, we pay attention to the opinions the author is presenting. The other name for this is
What is bias?
400
These are two examples of figurative language.
What are similes and metaphors?
500
This is a short piece of nonfiction prose that discusses a limited topic.
What is an essay or article?
500
The exposition of a story is..
What is when we are introduced to the setting, characters and conflict of the story?
500
I am a character in the story. The reader knows only MY thoughts and feelings.
What is first person point of view?
500
These are three examples of an author's purpose for writing.
What are (3 of the following) to inform, to entertain, to persuade, to explain, to reveal a truth about life, to share an experience?
500
The author's attitude toward a subject comes across in this.
What is tone?