Figurative Language
Story Elements (Plot)
Author's Purpose
Skill Lessons
Text Structures
100

Allie ate apples in Alaska.

What is alliteration?

100

This is the word for the people, animals, or things that the story is mostly about.

What is character?

100

Next, you will have to mix your ingredients until they are blended together.

What is inform?

100

The order in which things happen.

What is sequence?

100

This describes a topic.

What is a description?

200

You are as fast as a cheetah.

What is simile?

200

This is the place, environment, and time the story takes place.

What is setting?

200

We have the best ice cream! You have to come try it!

What is persuade?

200

A word that sounds like the noise it describes.

What is onomatopoeia?

200

This explains how things are alike and different.

What is a compare and contrast?

300

The tree branches danced in the wind.

What is personification?

300

This is the most exciting part of a story... that may have you sitting at the edge of your seat!

What is climax?

300

Bobby was challenged to swim across the massive river, so he tried. Will he make it? We can only watch and find out!

What is entertain?

300

To form a picture in your mind.

What is visualize?

300

This tells the order of events.

What is sequence/chronological?

400

I have a million things to do!

What is hyperbole?

400

This is the part in the story where the problem is solved.

What is solution?

400

Disney's Encanto's hit song "We Don't Talk About Bruno" reached #1 on the Billboard charts (which is something that hasn't been done since Aladdin's "A Whole New World" back in 1993).

What is inform?

400

The way a piece of writing is organized. (usually nonfiction)

What is text structure?

400

This tells how a problem was solved.

What is problem and solution?

500

You are such a couch potato!

What is metaphor?

500

This is what the author would like the reader to learn from the story.

What is theme/message?

500

No one can do it, and I bet you can't!

What is persuade?

500

Words around unfamiliar words that will help you figure out its meaning.

What are context clues?

500

This explains why something happened and what happened as a result.

What is an cause and effect?