Fiction
This part of a plot diagram shows the characters and the setting.
What is the exposition?
A story written about another person's life.
What is a biography?
Who is the blue protagonist of Mrs. Brown's favorite children's book?
Who is Grover?
Each sentence must begin with this.
What is a capital letter?
This persuasion technique is used to get readers to stop thinking and start feeling.
What is pathos?
This part of the plot diagram occurs between the exposition and the climax.
What is the rising action?
This tells the reader what the text is mainly about, what the reader is about to read, and focuses the reader on a topic.
What is a title?
This item was held to the throat of Mrs. Brown's childhood toy, Big Bear, by her older brother.
What is a knife?
The "A" in FANBOYS.
What is and?
This persuasion technique is used when trying to convince the audience that the character is a good/smart/talented/strong person.
What is ethos?
This part of the plot diagram is the most important part (or turning point) of the story.
What is the climax?
This explains what is in a picture or illustration. It also helps the reader understand something that may not be in the text.
What is a caption?
There is no question to answer. Whichever teams chooses this option, automatically gets $300.
What is how we know Mrs. Brown is awesome?
It is placed before the FANBOYS.
What is the comma?
This persuasion technique uses clear and concise terms to help the readers logically understand why they should agree with your point.
What is logos?
This part of a story occurs directly after the climax of a story.
What is the falling action?
This organizes a large amount of information in a small space. It can include data that helps the reader better understand the text. (Hint: You can play ping pong on it.)
What is a table?
Mrs. Brown fell out of this when she was 4 years old because her brother tried to run over her toes with the vacuum cleaner.
What is a two-story window?
This is an independent clause.
What is after the comma? or What is a complete sentence?
Suddenly, a screech is heard and a little puppy is run over. The ad is for windshield wipers.
What is pathos?
This is the lesson the author wants the reader to learn from the story.
What is the theme?
This is a drawing that shows or explains something. They can help the reader understand steps, how objects are made, or information in the text.
What is a diagram?
This can be inferred about Mrs. Brown's cousin, Allayna.
What is she is clumsy?
This is extra information that is added to a sentence to give a reader more detail. It is not needed for the sentence to be complete. (Hint: We learned it in a not-so-positve lesson.)
What is an appositive?
A new car is shown on the screen with arrows pointed at various features of it. It also lists how many miles per gallon of gas it uses.
What is logos?