Plot

Figurative Language 1

100

Uses like or as to compare two things.

What is a Simile?

200

When the truth is stretched or exaggerated.

What is Hyperbole?

300

Does not use like or as.

What is Metaphor?

400

An expression peculiar to a particular language that means something different from the literal meaning of the words.

What is an idiom?

500

"The stars will cry tears tonight.

What is personification?

Figurative Language 2

100

He was as fast as a cheetah.

What is a simile?

200

He was a fast cheetah.

What is a metaphor?

300

Giving something non-human human characteristics

What is personification?

400

BOOM! CRASH! ZIP!

What is onomatopoeia?

500

An exaggeration.

What is  hyperbole?

Grammar and Writing

100

Person, place, or thing

What is a noun?

200

Describing word

What an adjective?

300

How do you show that you are using a quote from the text?

What is you use quotation marks?

400

What does each paragraph need at the beginning?

What is an indent?

500

How do you show that someone is speaking when you are quoting text?

What is "'using this punctuation'"?

Elements of Plot 1

100

the problem faced by a character

What is conflict?

200

the last part of the plot

What is resolution?

300

when the outcome of the conflict is decided

What is climax?

400

the chain of related events that tells us what happens in a story

What is plot?

500

The step in our plot diagram where the conflict is revealed accompanied by leading events.

What is rising action?

Elements of a Plot 2

100

A series of events in a story.

What is plot?

200

Important people in a story.

What is characters?

300

Where the story takes place.

What is setting?

400

The most exciting moment in a story

What is climax?

500

The part of the story that takes place after the climax and leads to the resolution.

What is falling action?