Plot
Setting
Characterization
Context Clues
Citing Evidence
100
The first stage of a plot Diagram.
What is the introduction or exposition?
100
These are the 2 things that setting tells us.
What is: where and when (time and place)
100
This is what "S" in STEAL stands for.
What is: speech (or says)?
100
This is what context clues means.
What are: Words and phrases that help you determine the meaning of unknown words or phrases?
100
This is what it means to quote word-for-word what someone else said and give credit to the source.
What is: Citing evidence?
200
The second stage of a plot Diagram, where the conflict begins.
What is the rising action?
200
These are the 3 types of settings
What are: historical, physical, and social
200
This is what the "E" in STEAL stands for.
What is: Effects on others?
200
These are the 4 types of context clues.
What are: Definition, synonym, antonym, and inference?
200
This is the name of the punctuation that goes around a direct quote when citing evidence.
What are: quotation marks?
300
The part of the plot that is a turning point.
What is the climax?
300
A book that takes place during WWII has this type of setting.
What is historical
300
The 2 ways an author usually describes a character.
What is: direct and indirect?
300
This is the type of context clue that is given in the excerpt below to help figure out the meaning of dwell:
Renee thought it best not to dwell on the situation, for it was not something worth thinking about for a long period of time.
What is: Synonym?
300
This is the 3 letter name for the format we use when we cite evidence.
What is: MLA?
400
This is what happens during the falling action.
What is: the conflict is beginning to resolve?
400
A book that takes place in the future where the government requires the characters to follow certain rules or there are consequences has this type of setting.
What is social?
400
This is when an author directly tells us the traits of a character.
What is: direct characterization?
400
This is the type of context clue used in the excerpt below to help figure out the meaning of mortified.
The townspeople were mortified, meaning embarrassed, over the situation which not only got them on the local news, but national news.
What is: Definition?
400
This is the second thing that goes in parentheses when citing evidence, before the page number.
What is: the author's last name or source?
500
The ending of the story is called this
What is the resolution?
500
A book that tells in-depth details related to your 5 senses is this kind of setting.
What is physical?
500
This is when the author reveals a character's traits through their thoughts, actions, speech,etc.
What is: indirect characterization?
500
This is the type of context clue used below to identify the meaning of the word isolated.
Unlike other European countries that are surrounded by many countries, Ireland is an isolated country in Europe.
What is: Antonym?
500
This is what's missing from the cited piece of evidence below:
"No one knows just when when, where and how the taco began" (1).
What is: the author or source?
600
These 2 things are introduced during the exposition
What are the characters and setting?
600
The setting for the following excerpt is:
Samuel, his parents, and his younger sister had been glued to the television for most of the day. There was a tornado watch for they area. Everyone was feeling nervous. Samuel looked at his mother, who sat on the sofa wringing her hands. Suddenly, the screen in the living room flashed red, and a loud siren began wailing nearby. Samuel turned his attention back to the television and read the words he had been dreading: “Warning—Residents of Grayson County should take cover immediately. Several tornado sightings have been reported in the area.”
What is: night time in Grayson County (also in Samuel's living room)
600
This is the main character, often the hero, of a story.
What is: the protagonist?
600
This is the word that means distance from side to side
The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water. It is almost 750 miles long and about 200 miles in breadth. It is bordered by five countries, including Iran and Russia. Three major rivers and several smaller ones flow into the Caspian Sea but none flow out.
What is: breadth?
600
This is what's missing from the cited evidence below:
They're eating more diverse things, but they're still eating Mexican (The Smithsonian Institute 2).
What are: Quotation marks?
700
This is the correct sequence of events for the "For the Birds" Pixar Short
A. Large bird waves at little birds
B. Little birds are arguing and pushing each other
C. Little birds lose their feathers
D. Little birds peck at large bird
What is B-A-D-C?
700
This is the evidence that proves the following setting is a physical setting.
The wind was howling as the moon rose above the treetops. Lana could smell the distant smoke coming from the creepy house she thought was abandoned.
What is: wind was howling, moon rose above the treetops, smell the distant smoke.
700
This is the character in the story who challenges the main character, often considered the villain.
What is: the antagonist?
700
This is what decimated means as it is used in the story below:
As our family’s after-earthquake damage assessor, my job was to check for broken belongings, signs of smoke or fire, collapsed furniture, and anything that seemed out of place. Methodically inspecting each room and its contents, I took note of a few minor quake casualties: scattered blocks that used to be Kabir’s castle, a toppled jewelry stand, some fallen paper towel rolls, a blank screen on the stove where the time was supposed to be—
“No!” I yelled. “Mom, Dad, my perfect record has been decimated: WE’VE LOST POWER!”
What is: destroyed?
700
These are the 2 errors in the cited evidence below:
"in his biography, he claims to have invented the hard, U-shaped taco shell in the 1950s" (The Smithsonian Institute pg. 3).
What are: Missing capital at the start of the quote and the unnecessary use of "pg."
800
This was the climax in "Presto".
What is: when Presto falls and the rabbit has to decide if he should save him?
800
This is the setting for the following excerpt:
Malakai was just a boy when the Holocaust began, but it was something he would never forget. The Nazis that marched through the streets of his hometown of Berlin were an image he wished he could forget.
What is Berlin, Germany, during WWII (1939-1945)
800
This is the acronym that we use to describe a character's traits.
What is: STEAL?
800
This is the meaning of the word veteran as it is used in the following paragraph.
The four of us crawled out from under the heavy dining room table, and my six-year-old brother’s cries scattered my visualization. Kabir, I suddenly realized, had never been in an earthquake—not one he remembered, anyway, and of course he was terrified! I, on the other hand, was an earthquake veteran who had lost count of how many quakes I had lived through.
What is: a person who has experienced or done something many times?
800
This is how to properly cite the highlighted piece of evidence from the article below:
What is: "But he forgets his lucky baseball at home and has to hurry to get it in time" (Associated Press 2).