Where and when the story takes place
Setting
The Problem in the story
Conflict
The end of the story
Resolution
What a piece of writing is mainly about
Main Idea
The central idea of a story
Theme
To shorten and tell the beginning, middle, and end of a passage
Summary
Writing that tells reader how to do something
Procedural
A beginning or coming into being
Origin
The story of a person's life written by that person in first person point of view
Autobiography
The perspective from which a story is told
Point of View
Giving human qualities to non-human things
Personification
To communicate or express
Convey
When a portion of the story goes back in time
Flashback
Clues to suggest events that will happen later in the plot
Foreshadow
To demonstrate that something is right; to defend with reasons
Justify
A division or type of literature
Genre
A conversation between two persons
Dialogue
A practical lesson about right and wrong
Moral
Work based on the imagination
Fiction
Writing that tells about real-life
Non-Fiction
A story written to be performed by actors
Drama
The use of words that represent sounds
Onomatopoeia
To disagree, to say the opposite
Contradict
The person who is telling the story
Narrator
A comparison or two unlike things
Metaphor