Story Elements
Text Structure
Poetry
Figurative Language
Vocabulary
100
The time and place when a story happens.
What is setting.
100
When the reader is told the outcome of a given event and the reason it happened.
What is cause/effect
100
a list of characters in a play with a short description of each
What is cast of characters
100
Example: The children ran like ripples through the water.
What is a simile
100
A word that means the same as another
What is a synonym
200
Ties incidents in a story together and makes the plot move forward.
What is conflict in plot
200
This type of text explains the differences and similarities between two or more things.
What is compare/contrast.
200
a line or group of lines that is repeated throughout a poem.
What is a refrain
200
Example: Life is a journey; enjoy the ride.
What is a metaphor
200
a word that means the opposite of another
What is an antonym?
300
What is a discussion between two or more characters?
What is dialogue
300
Goose bumps make me shiver. I get little bumps on my skin.They look like sesame seeds
What is description
300
The similarity in sound of the ends of words.
What is rhyme
300
Example: Zachary zeroed in on the zoo.
What is alliteration
300
A word that has nothing added to the beginning or end
What is a root word
400
The life lesson, meaning or moral message about life or human nature in a literary work.
What is theme
400
Some countries, such as Japan, or parts of a country, like California in the United States, have a lot of earthquakes. In these places it is a good practice to build houses and other buildings so they will not collapse when there is an earthquake. This is called seismic design or "earthquake-proofing".
What is problem/solution
400
The arrangement of rhymes in a stanza.
What is rhyme scheme
400
Example: Oreo: Milk's favorite cookie!
What is personification
400
A word ending.
What is a suffix Do you know what a prefix is?
500
Qualities a character exhibits. Often indicated by their statements, actions or thoughts.
What are character traits
500
Hurricane Katrina began as Tropical Depression Twelve over the southeastern Bahamas on August 23, 2005. The depression later strengthened into a tropical storm on the morning of August 24 where the storm was also named Katrina. Katrina continued to move into Florida, and became a Category 1 hurricane only two hours before it made landfall around Hallandale Beach on the morning of August 25. The storm weakened over land, but became a hurricane again while entering the Gulf of Mexico.
What is Sequencing (time order)
500
Two or more lines of poetry that form a division of a poem.
What is a stanza
500
Example: I took my cousin's side in the argument because after all, blood is thicker than water.
What is an idiom
500
A word that sounds the same as another word, but has a different meaning.
What is a homophone Can you give an example?