Vocabulary 1
A made-up story is what kind of genre?
What is fiction?
A person/animal in a fictional story.
What is a character?
Who are the main characters?
What is I who is telling the story and gramma.
Identify the type of figurative language that compares using like or as
What is simile?
When and where a story takes place.
What is setting?
A made up story that seems like it could really happen.
What is realistic fiction?
The story revolves around this character either directly or indirectly.
What is a main character?
I is full of anticipation and curiosity. These are internal emotions that are called
What is character traits?
The author used what natural occurrence to add suspense to the book
What is a heat lightning crackling as if gramma could ?
The type of narration, or how a story is told.
What is point of view?
A problem, within the story either external or internal can be referred to as the what?
What is a conflict?
The sequence of events in a story.
What is plot?
I is excited for many reasons in this book. Give an example for why she is so excited
Answers will vary. What is her cousins are coming and she hasn't seen them in a year.
What is Gramma said she might show her how to catch lightning in a jar.
Authors include their own feeling about social issues that make up the theme of the book. What is the theme and how does the author feel about the theme ?
Answers will vary What is Family, traditions? The author believes family is important. Traditions are used to remember those she loved by keeping old memories alive and making new memories for generations to come.
What a character thinks, feels, or believes about something.
What is perspective?
A problem a character has with an outside force.
What is an external conflict?
Any type of language that does not literally mean what it says.
What is figurative language?
During the reunion, there are many traditions that are done year after year. Explain a tradition and why it is done.
What is games, measuring stick, photos, and story telling traditions. Traditions bond people and keep memories alive?
I is a young girl in the story right up until she is a gramma having her own reunion at the end of the story. Why did the author show her at at two different ages in the book?
Answers may vary,
What is I was experiencing the family traditions so that later in her life she could pass them on to her own grandchildren. "Keeping memories alive"
Authors include social issues in realistic fiction for these reasons.
Answers will vary.
A problem within the character's mind.
What is an internal conflict?
Realistic fiction uses common problem that many people have in real life. Examples include poverty, bullying, family, family problems, etc. to help the reader better understand these social issues.
What is theme?
Gramma makes I wait all day to find out about the lightning in a jar. Explain Gramma's actions.
What is she is waiting for the right time of day because lighting bugs are better to see at dusk and she wants all the children to experience the event at the same time? In addition it builds suspense.
There are real photos in the book, I is the narrator and the pictures say this is me and my sister.... Who do you think could be I to get real photos for the book?
What is I is the author Patricia Polacco?
Explain the difference between perspective and point of view.
Answers will vary.
Point of view is the type of narration, or who is telling the story, and perspective is the thoughts, feelings, and beliefs of a character.