Genres
A genre that involves detectives trying to solve crimes.
What is Mystery?
What is blue?
This is the highest point of excitement in a story, and also serves as its turning point.
What is a text feature?
Before and After: This might be title of a book in which a boy wizard meets a crazy cat known for his striking headwear.
What is Harry Potter and the Cat in the Hat?
A genre known for magic, magical creatures, and imaginary worlds.
What is Fantasy?
People wear green on St. Patrick's day to protect themselves from being pinched due to this folklore belief about the power of the color green against leprechauns.
What is the belief that green makes people invisible to leprechauns?
This is the part of the story when the protagonist begins their quest and things begin happening.
What is the rising action?
The opinion an author, narrator, or speaker has about the topic they are writing about or the lens through which they see the story they are telling is called this.
What is the point of view?
J.M. Barrie (the author of Peter Pan) and A.A. Milne (the author of the Winnie the Pooh series) were good friends, and their books included these two characters who were described as being so small that they could only feel one emotion at a time.
Who are Tinker Bell and Piglet?
A genre that is known for fictional advanced technology, and often takes place in outer space.
What is Science Fiction?
St. Patrick was known to use a shamrock in his teachings or a clover with how many leaves?
What is three leaves?
This is the part of the story when a few more conflicts and things have to happen before the end.
What is the falling action?
The Little House on the Prairie, which takes place in the United States during the Pioneer Era is an example of this genre.
What is historical fiction?
The name of this type of insect is the result of so many people mishearing its original name, that the incorrect one stuck.
What is a butterfly?
This is the name for the type or category of literature that a particular text falls into.
What is a genre?
This city dyes its river green every year on St. Patrick's Day to honor the Irish immigrants who helped to build it.
What is Chicago?
The conclusion of a story is at the end when the world has established a new this.
What is a new normal?
When the narrator of a story is a part of the story and is telling it using the word "I" that is an example of this kind of narration.
What is first person narration?
This is the literary term for when an author massively exaggerates something to make a point.
What is hyperbole?
This genre is categorized by having no traditional narrator, relying on dialogue and its interpretation by actors and directors.
What is a play?
This is the main idea of the entire passage about St. Patrick's Day, as stated in its introduction.
What is the fact that St. Patrick's Day started as a religious holiday, but over time has become a celebration of Irish culture.
This is the fancy name for the introduction of a story, also known as The Big Thing That Happens Right Away.
What is the inciting incident?
When a reader uses information from the text to make an educated guess or hypothesis about the story or characters, that is called this.
What is an inference?
In order, name the grammatical term that describes each "it's / its" in the sentence below.
It's so typical that its shadow was lengthened.
What are contraction and possessive?