The time, place and period in which the action takes place.
What is setting?
100
It is the introduction of a story. It is the part of the work that introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation.
What is exposition?
100
Forming pictures in your mind while you are reading.
What is Visualizing?
100
Starts in the present and then goes back to the past. Occurs in moves in books. Shows something that happened earlier.
What is Flashback?
200
Not acting interested.
What is nonchalant?
200
The story is told by a character or the author and uses the first person pronoun "I".
What is First-Person Point of View?
200
The turning point. The most intense, exciting part.
What is Climax?
200
Guessing what will happen next while you are reading.
What is Predicting?
200
It is the author's use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
300
What all the sentences are about in a paragraph.
What is Main message ( also known as Main Idea)?
300
Time and place that the events in a story occur.
What is the setting of a story?
300
The events that lead up to the ending.
What is Falling Action?
300
The author doesn't always tell you everything you need to know in a story. Make logical guesses by using a little bit of what the author says and a little bit of what is in your head.
What is making an inference?
300
Restating the key points in the story.
What is summarizing? Or summary?
400
The problem in the story.
What is conflict?
400
The characters that do not have major roles in the story. Their role is smaller.
What is a minor character?
400
The series of conflicts and crisis in the story that lead to the climax.
What is Rising Action?
400
It is the order in which events occur in a story. Example, the first thing that happend, the next....
What is sequence of events?
500
A maze ( like a corn maze you might find at a pumpkin patch).
What is a Labyrinth?
500
When the narrator uses pronouns such as "he' or "she" to refer to the characters.
What is third person limited point of view?
500
The conclusion. How the story ends.
What is Resolution?
500
Makes a comparison using the key word "like".
Example: Her voice is like a song bird.