Narrative Arc
What is the exposition?
This language element uses like or as to compare unlike things.
What is a similie
They frame speech and citations from characters or texts.
What are quotation marks?
How the author expresses his or her feelings through their writing.
What is tone?
Interesting events or facts that pulls the reader into the essay.
What is a hook?
Where the main conflict occurs and the action of the book takes a turn.
What is the conflict?
When things are exactly as they are described?
What is literal?
What are question marks and exclamation points?
The underlying message or big ideas that occur in a story.
What is the theme?
The road map to the essay, explaining what it will be about.
What is the thesis
When the conflict in the plot is concluded and events are often wrapped up.
What is resolution?
When the meaning of the words is not meant to be taken exactly as it is described.
What is figurative?
These divide quotations from dialogue tags like he said.
What is a comma?
The changes in attitude and feelings in the story
What is mood?
The beginning of an essay, including the hook and thesis.
What is the introduction?
The main part of the plot when the conflict is developed and the major events occur.
What is the rising action?
A direct comparison of two unlike things.
What is a metaphor?
These come after each character speaks
What are indents?
When the author gives clues to events that occur later in the plot.
What is foreshadowing?
The part of the essay which focuses on events or evidence that support the theme or belief.
What are the body paragraphs
When the conflict is over and the characters react to what has happened.
What is the falling action?
A folksy saying that has a different and unrelated meaning from what the words describe.
What is an idiom?
The first letter of your quote should always be one of these.
What is a capital letter?
First, second, or third person narrators
What is point of view?
The part of the essay which restates the belief and summarizes why the narrator or speaker feels the way they do.
What is the conclusion?