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Literacy Elements
Story Elements
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A direct comparison of two unlike objects.
What is a metaphor?
100
The key points made in a text; the main ideas.
What is the central idea or main idea?
100
A brief composition (piece of writing) on a single subject. Multi-paragraph writing to explain a writing prompt.
What is an essay?
100
The perspective from which a story is told (1st or 3rd).
What is point of view?
100
Showing that things are similar.
What is comparing?
200
A figure of speech comparing two different objects using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
200
The pieces of information that support or tell more about the main idea.
What are details?
200
A story with a setting, plot, and characters.
What is a narrative?
200
The narrator is outside the story and observes all the characters and knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
What is third person omniscient point of view?
200
Showing differences.
What is contrasting?
300
Words that have a meaning that is different from the literal meaning.
What is figurative language?
300
To tell the main points in a shorts, simple, and clear way.
What is to summarize?
300
The narrator is outside of the story and observes all of the characters but only knows the feelings of one character.
What is third person limited point of view?
300
The central message, what the author wants you to know; often inferred by the reader.
What is the theme?
400
Repetition of the initial sound at the beginning of a set of words.
What is alliteration?
400
The sequence of events in a story or narrative.
What is plot?
400
A question or instruction that tells you what you're supposed to write.
What is a prompt?
400
The narrator is inside the story as a specific character.
What is first person point of view?
400
To point out the differences between two similar objects.
What is distinguish?
500
An extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
500
A conclusion that can be made about someone or something based on clues given in a text.
What is to infer?
500
To convince or talk someone into your idea or belief.
What is persuade?
500
When events are arranged in the order in which they happened.
What is chronological order?
500
Why the author write a piece of writing.
What is author's purpose?