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Story Elements
Figurative Language
Plot Diagram
Odds and Ends
Non-Fiction Genres
100
The time and place in which a story happened.
What is the setting?
100
Compares two things WITHOUT using like or as
What is metaphor?
100
The author establishes the setting, introduces the main characters, and gives background information.
What is exposition?
100
A story that is make believe - something that didn't really happen.
What is fiction?
100
The story of an actual person's life as told by another person.
What is biography?
200
The lesson that the reader or main character learns
What is theme?
200
Compares two things using like or as.
What is simile?
200
Brings the story to a close, end of the story.
What is resolution?
200
To find the similarities between two or more things.
What is comparing?
200
Writing that contains scholarly information such as dictionaries, thesauruses or text books.
What is reference or academic?
300
The overall feeling created by a work of literature.
What is mood?
300
Words which resemble the real sound they are referring to
What is onomatopoeia?
300
The most exciting moment in the story.
What is the climax?
300
Who the character is on the inside - their personality
What are character traits?
300
A story of an actual person's life as told by that same person.
What is autobiography?
400
A conflict where a character has a problem with another character.
What is person vs person?
400
Giving human qualities, feelings, actions or characteristics to non-human things
What is personification?
400
The conflict or problem the characters might face is described.
What is rising action?
400
Describes events in order or explains the steps one must follow to do something or make something
What is sequential text structure?
400
Literature that explains instructions in a process such as cookbooks or maintenance.
What is how-to?
500
A conflict that seems to be destined or inevitable
What is person vs fate?
500
A type of figurative language that does NOT mean exactly what it says.
What is an idiom?
500
The story begins to be resolved.
What is falling action?
500
Tells a problem and then gives one or more solutions.
What is Problem and Solution text structure?
500
Literature that is geared to help manage some part of a person's personal or professional life.
What is self-help?