Literary Elements
What do we call the main message or lesson of a story?
What is the theme?
A comparison using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
What do we call the author’s reason for writing a text?
What is the author’s purpose?
These are hints in the text that help you figure out word meanings.
What are context clues?
What do you call fixing grammar, punctuation, and spelling?
What is editing?
The sequence of events in a story is called the ___.
What is the plot?
A phrase that means something different than its literal meaning.
What is an idiom?
What point of view uses “I,” “me,” and “my”?
What is first-person?
The base of a word, often from Greek or Latin.
What is a root word?
What do you call improving ideas, clarity, or word choice in writing?
What is revising?
What is the struggle between opposing forces in a story?
What is conflict?
"The wind whispered through the trees" is an example of ___.
What is personification?
The feeling the reader gets from a story is called ___.
What is the mood?
The part added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning.
What is a prefix?
This kind of agreement ensures subjects and verbs match.
What is subject-verb agreement?
What type of text includes characters, plot, and setting but is not real?
What is fiction?
“Time is a thief” is an example of what?
What is a metaphor?
What kind of irony is it when the audience knows something the character doesn’t?
What is dramatic irony?
A common prefix that means "not" or "opposite of."
What is un-?
Which word is correct: their, there, or they’re for “They left ___ books”?
What is their?
The part of the story where the conflict is resolved is called the ___.
What is the resolution?
What type of irony is used when a fire station burns down?
What is situational irony?
How the author organizes the text (like cause/effect or problem/solution) is called ___.
What is text structure?
If “bio” means life, what does “biology” mean?
What is the study of life?
What’s wrong with this sentence? “She walk to the store every day.”
The verb should be walks for subject-verb agreement.