Fiction
Story Elements: When and where the story takes place.
What is Setting?
The lesson or message of the story.
What is the Theme
Text Feature:Helps you better understand a picture or illustration
What is Caption
The text/paragraph is mostly about.
What is Main Idea
The person or character who communicates the words of the poem.
What is the Speaker
Story Element: The turning point of the story that is also referred to as the greatest intensity moment.
What is Climax?
The leading character or a major character in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text
(Hint: The Good Guy)
What is Protagonist
Authors organize their writing in a way that is helpful to their readers.
What is Text Structure
Somebody, Wanted, But, So creates...
What is a Summary.
A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem
What is Stanza
Point of View: The story is told from the perspective of the main character.
Pronouns: I, Me, My
What is First Person
A struggle that is within a character, like dealing with emotions, thoughts, or feelings.
(Man V. Self)
What is Internal Conflict
The text is written in order of events of chronological order.
What is Sequence
The reason the author wrote the story/piece of writing
What is Authors Purpose
The attitude the writer projects in a poem.
What is Tone
A person who actively opposes or is hostile to the main character
What is Antagonist
A character struggles against another character or against some outside force, such as nature or society.
( Man v. Man, Society,Nature )
What is External conflict
What text structure is this:
The night’s snowstorm had many effects. People were out shoveling snow from their sidewalks. The power lines were draped with ice. Snow plows drove down every street. Children were the happiest of all. The unexpected snow caused school to be cancelled!
What is Cause and Effect
The feeling of a piece of literature
What is Mood
Notes that are included in a play to describe how something should look, sound, or be performed.
What is Stage Directions/Notes
Point of View: The narrator tells the story from one character's perspective, including what that character does, thinks, and feels.
Pronouns: He, She, They, Them
What is 3rd Person Limited
Point of View: The narrator knows all/sees all! The actions, thoughts, and feelings of all characters are represented in the story.
What is 3rd Person Omniscient
A note at the bottom of a page of text which provides information about something that is mentioned on that page.
The authors don't always tell the reader exactly what is going on in the story. Readers must use their background knowledge and text evidence.
( Hint: Background Knowledge + Text Evidence=? )
What is Inferencing
A dramatic event which occur in a single place and time until either place or time changes
What is a Scene