Elements of Fiction
Elements of Nonfiction
Elements of Poetry
Grammar
Challenge!
100

The people, animals, or things that the story is about.

What are characters?

100

Divide the text into smaller sections, tell the main idea of a section, help the reader locate information in the text. 

What is a subheading?

100

A poem with seven syllables that is usually about nature. 

What is a haiku?

100

Phrases that do not mean exactly what they say.

What is an idiom?

100

Highlighting, making notes, using sticky notes, and proving your answers in your test.

What are strategies?

200

Physical and emotional parts of a character.

What are traits?

200

A chart that shows events in the order that they happened. 

What is a timeline?

200

The matching up of sounds and syllables, usually at the end of lines.

What is rhyme/rhyming?

200

A word added at the beginning of a word and a word added at the end of the word. 

What are prefixes and suffixes?

200

An author's purpose can be PIE

What is persuade, inform, and entertain?

300

The central idea of the story. It is the message the author wants you to learn.

What is theme?

300

The words near a picture that explains what it is about. 

What is a caption?

300

Rhyming, alliteration, onomatopoeia are examples of ___ that make poetry more fun. 

What are sound devices?

300

Comparing two different things using the words "like" or "as."

What is a simile?

300

Using words or phrases around an unfamiliar word to find out what it means.

What are context clues?

400

This is what happens in a story. The sequence of events in the story. 

What is plot?
400

1) A true statement that can be proven.
2) What someone thinks or how they feel about something.

What is a fact? What is an opinion?

400

Making a picture in your mind using your five senses

What is visualizing?

400

A word that means the same as another word and a word that means the opposite of another word. 

What are synonyms and antonyms?

400

What happens in a text and the reasons why it happens.

What is cause and effect?

500

The five elements of a story.

What are plot, characters, setting, theme, and conflict? 

500

What the story, text, or passage is mostly about.

What is the central idea?

500

AABB, ABAB, ABBA, ABCB

What are the four different rhyme schemes?

500

Role and Roll are two examples of this.

What are homophones?

500
A little bit of schema + a dose of evidence = ________

What is an inference/making inferences?