Story Arc
This part of the story arc is the emotional high point of the story.
What is a climax?
This part of speech is a physical or mental action or a word that links a noun to another noun.
What is a verb?
This narrative technique is used to move between events, ideas, and topics.
What are transitional words and phrases?
A TAG sentence includes this, the author, and the genre.
What is a title?
This type figurative language is a direct comparison of two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
This part of the story arc is the background information readers need to know to understand the story.
What is exposition?
This part of speech describes or modifies a noun.
What is a adjective?
This narrative technique shows us what a character is thinking.
What is internal monologue?
The first sentence of any summary has to include this, along with a central idea.
What is TAG?
This is an example of this kind of figurative language: "The red letter 'F' on my test glared at me."
What is personification?
This part of the story arc is something you need to have a story, and can be internal or external (or both!).
What is a conflict?
This part of speech describes a verb, adjective, or even another one of itself by answering, "How? When? Where? How often? To what extent?"
What is a adverb?
When using dialogue, you put this around the part that is spoken.
What are quotation marks?
A summary must be written like this, without any personal opinion or judgement.
What is objectively?
This type of figurative language uses the words "like" or "as" to compare two unlike things that share some similarity.
What is a simile?
This part of the story arc can get more intense over time.
What is rising action?
This type of verb teaches you something about the noun.
What is a linking verb?
One way to make this more interesting is to drop the speaker tag (after establishing speakers).
What is dialogue?
When writing a summary, you must include only this, no minor details, in the same order they appear in the text.
What are key ideas?
This type of figurative language can sometimes be used with similes and metaphors, like in this sentence: "He is as skinny as a toothpick!"
What is a hyperbole?
This part of the story arc is not always explicitly written out, and is often a reflection of the events that occurred.
What is a resolution?
This type of noun names things that cannot be physically touched, like ideas, concepts, and emotions.
What is a abstract noun?
This type of internal monologue is when the narrator is talking to the audience. (Like a diary entry)
What is indirect internal monologue?
To stay this, the summary must use its own words to paraphrase instead of coping from the text.
What is original?
This figurative language catagory include similes and metaphors.
What are comparisons?