This is the beginning of the story. It introduces the characters, setting, and the basic conflict of the story.
What is the exposition?
100
The moral, lesson, or message of the story.
What is the theme?
100
A peice of literature completely invented by the author.
What is fiction?
100
A division of a poem made by arranging the lines into units seperated by a space.
What is a stanza?
100
Exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect.
Ex. These books weigh a ton.
What is a hyperbole?
200
A problem or obstacle that a character must overcome.
What is the conflict?
200
Making educated guesses about things not directly stated in the passage.
What is inferencing or drawing conclusions.
200
A peice of writing that is true.
What is nonfiction?
200
The pattern of sounds that make a poem sound musical. If each line in the poem has the same number of syllables, it likely has this.
What is rhythm?
200
When a writer makes a thing, idea, or animal do things only a human can do.
Ex. Before nightfall, the hungry cave devoured Max.
What is personification?
300
The most intense, exciting part of the story. It is the turning point after which things get better or worse for the character. The character deals with the main conflict for the last time.
What is the climax?
300
The way a story is told when the narrator uses pronouns such as "I" and "we".
What is first person point-of-view.
300
A fictional story based on a time or event in history.
What is historical fiction?
300
Two words that sound alike.
What is rhyme?
300
When two things are directly compared using like or as.
Ex. The coins tossed into the wishing well turned over in the air like seagulls turning over in mid-flight.
What is a simile?
400
Includes details about what the character does to solve the conflict. The majority of the story.
What is the rising action?
400
The way a story is told when the narrator uses pronouns such as "he," "she," and "they."
What is third person point-of-view.
400
A story about someone's life written by someone other than the person whose life is being described.
What is a biography?
400
A repeated phrase or stanza.
What is a refrain?
400
When two things are compared WITHOUT using like or as.
Ex. Sarah was a torch, lighting the way for everyone who came after her.
What is a metaphor?
500
The conclusion that explain what happens to the character at the end of the story.
What is the denoument?
500
A special quality or something special about a character's personality.
What is a trait?
500
A person writes about his or her own life using first person pronouns such as "I" and "we."
What is an autobiography?
500
The pattern of rhyme in a poem. Look at the last word of each line to determine if a poem has this.
What is rhyme scheme?
500
The use of words to imitate sounds.
Ex. moo, buzz, splat