LITERARY ELEMENTS
CONTEXT CLUES
VOCABULARY
PLOT PARTS
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
POETRY
100

When and where a story takes place

What is setting?

100

What does weary mean? Mom spent all day working in the garden. She felt weary and just wanted to go to bed.

What is tired/exhausted?

100

To point out or show

What does it mean to indicate?

100

Sequence of events in a story

What is plot?

100

A comparison using like or as

What is a simile?

100

The "sentence" of a poem

What is a line?

200

The message or moral of a story

What is theme?

200

What does mundane mean? Daniel found sharpening pencils very mundane. He wished he had a more exciting job.

What is boring/dull?

200

To develop or add to

What is contribute to?

200

Where the problem is solved?

What is falling action?

200

Giving human qualities to inanimate objects

What is personification?

200

When words have the same ending sounds

What is rhyme?

300

Words spoken by characters in a story

What is dialogue?

300

What does caked mean? She caked mud inside the flower pot.

What is packed on/layered?

300

The exact words in a text

What is a quote?

300

The ending of the story

What is resolution?

300

Comparing two things without using like or as

What is metaphor?

300

A group of lines in a poem

What is a stanza?

400

What the passage is mostly about

What is main idea/central message?

400

What does ailments mean? Susie had many ailments including a rash, allergies, and a chronic headache.

What is illness/sickness?

400

To affect or change

What is impact?

400

The turning point of the story

What is climax?

400

An exaggeration made for emphasis

What is hyperbole?

400

Words, lines or phrases that are repeated to show importance or for effect

What is repetition?

500

The feeling one gets when reading a story

What is mood?

500

What does valiant mean? The valiant young woman grabbed the little boy just in time to save him from the speeding car.

What is brave/fearless?

500

To show or express a thought, feeling, or idea so that it is understood by other people

What is convey?

500

Where the problem is introduced

What is rising action?

500

When two or more words that start with the same sound are used repeatedly (Bunch of babbling bufoons)

What is alliteration?

500

The beat or pattern of a poem

What is rhythm?

600

The perspective from which a story is told

What is point of view?

600

What does sparse mean? The meadow was full of wildflowers. There were some large plants, but the trees were sparse.

What is few/not many?

600

To look at the parts (break down) a text to figure out meaning

What is analyze?

600

Where characters and setting are introduced

What is exposition?

600

The opposite of what is expected (Awesome! More homework!!!)

What is irony?

600

The author of a poem

What is a poet?