Figurative Language
Plot
Summary
Text Structure
Vocabulary
100

This type of Figurative Language compares two unlike things using like or as.

What is simile. 

100
This is where the main character meets the main conflict.

What is the climax?

100

This is what the summary gives: A ______ ______ of a text. 

What is brief overview?

100

The text structure sequence is organized this way.

What is by the order of events.

100

The order of events by time.

What is Chronological Order?

200

This type of Figurative Language creates an extreme exaggeration.

What is hyperbole?

200

This is the elements of plot, listed in order.

What is exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution?

200
What is meant by "text structure travels".

What is that the summary must be in the same order as the orginal story?

200

I am being told how to resolve a conflict or issue.

What is problem and solution?
200

This controls the thoughts within a text.  Examples are: theme, main idea, and thesis statement

What is Controling Idea?

300

There are many people at school.  There is only one with eyes that are a blue ocean.

Identify the phrase and type of Figurative Language.

What is the metaphor "eyes are a blue ocean"?

300

This events sets the story in motion.

What is inciting incident?

300

Three children moved out and build their own homes. The first and second house were destroyed by an enemy.  The third house withstood the wind, and the enemy was destroyed.  The three children lived happily ever after, together in the third home. 

What is the summary of "The Three Little Pigs"?

300

Key words: for example, for instance, another

What is description?

300

This is when the author gives a hint, or suggestion, of what is to come in the story.

What is foreshadowing

400

The stars sparkle like crystals in the night sky. I could watch the stars twinkle for hours.  The moon was a large block of cheese. 

Identify the phrase(s) and type of Figurative Language(s).

What is the simile "stars sparkle like crystals" and the metaphor "moon was a large block of cheese"?

400

The Three Little Pigs lived together in the brick house without being afraid of the wolf.

Identify the element of plot this sentence represents.

What is the resolution?

400

Quotations from the text, writers' opinions, repeated information,examples, TMI

What are things to be left out of a summary?

400
This is the key question for the Organizational Pattern cause and effect.

What is "am I being told why something happened"?

400

This is the preface of a story, it appears before Chapter 1. 

What is prologue?


500

This is the reason that authors use Figurative Language in their writing.

What is to create stronger images, mental pictures, or emotions?

500

The part of the plot where all of the conflicts are resolved.

What is falling action?

500

The pneumonic that helps with remembering the elements of plot.

What is Summary SORBET?

500

These are the five nonfiction text structures.

What are: description, cause and effect, compare and contrast, sequence, and problem and solution

500

Creative writing that appeals to the five senses.

What is Sensory Language?