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Story Elements
Literary Devices
Grammar
Vocabulary
Reading
100
The time and place of a story
What is setting?
100
The repeating of similar sounds, usually consonants, at the beginning of words
What is alliteration?
100
A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence
What is a verb?
100

Young-old, loud-quiet, big-little, tall-short, few-many

What are antonyms?

100

The presence of a positive or negative approach toward a topic, favoring one side. 

What is a bias?

200

The events and conflict that occur in a story.

What is a plot?

200
An excessive overstatement or exaggeration of fact
What is hyperbole?
200
People, places, things, or ideas
What is a noun?
200

Morphemes, derived from Greek and Latin languages, are used to build new words in English and provide clues to a word's meaning.

What are Greek and Latin roots?

200

To use the information that you read and the illustrations to guess what will take place in a story

What is predict?

300

When the objects, persons, and actions are equated with deeper meaning outside the narrative. May have moral, social, religious, or political significance.

What is an Allegory

300

It's raining cats and dogs!

What is an idiom?

300
Describes or modifies a person, place, thing, or idea in the sentence
What is an adjective?
300

able, aholic, ant, cide, dom, ed, er

What is a suffix?

300
What the story or paragraph is mostly about.
What is main idea?
400

A reference to something famous, like a book, movie, or historical event, to give deeper meaning without having to explain it directly.

What is Allusion?

400
The comparison of one thing to another that does not use the terms “like” or “as"
What is a metaphor?
400
A word that takes the place of a noun
What is a pronoun?
400

The base word without prefixes or suffixes

What is a root word?

400

An examination of a text or object going beyond simple summary; to explore its meaning, purpose, and effect, and offering interpretation and insights into the writing.

What is Analysis?

What is to Evaluate?

500

The range of associations that a word or phrase suggests. Can be positive or negative.

What is connotation?

500
The use of human characteristics to describe animals, things, or ideas
What is personification?
500
A word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb, answers the questions: how, when where, to what extent
What is an adverb?
500

dis, mis, un, re, pre, non, multi

able, ment, ness, ing, ed 

What are affixes?

500
a conclusion or opinion that is formed using known facts, and details of a story
What is inference?