Elements of Fiction
Elements of Plot
Nouns
Reading/Literary Terms
Selec. Vocab.
100
The time and location of a story
What is setting?
100
The high point or turning point of the story
What is the climax?
100
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
100
A statement that can be proven by reliable sources.
What is a fact?
100
If you are extremely tired, you are...
What is exhausted?
200
Real or fictional people or animals that participate in the action of the story
What are characters?
200
The outcome of the story.
What is the resolution?
200
The Statue of Liberty is not in Charleston, South Carolina. The proper nouns here in this sentence...
What are Statue of Liberty and Charleston, South Carolina?
200
Writing that tells about real people, events, places, or ideas.
What is nonfiction?
200
When you _________ something, you behave as if you have not seen or heard it.
What is ignore?
300
The events in a story
What is plot?
300
The problem in the story that needs to be resolved.
What is the conflict?
300
Nouns that show ownership or relationship
What are possessive nouns?
300
The perspective from which a narrator tells a story.
What is point-of-view?
300
If you __________________ you shouted loudly in a deep voice.
What is bellowed?
400
The life lesson the author wants you to learn from the story
What is theme?
400
The events that build tension in a story.
What is the rising action?
400
The possessive form of the noun Mars?
What is Mars's?
400
The developing idea about what will happen in a story next
What is a prediction?
400
Something that is very interesting or impressive is...
What is striking?
500
The perspective of the speaker who is not a character and does not participate in the story
What is third-person point-of-view?
500
The element of plot that gives background information and introduces the reader to the conflict.
What is the exposition?
500
Muhammad and a friend went back to the cave and found ancient biblical scrolls more than 2,000 years old. The nouns in the sentence...
What are Muhammad, friend, cave, scrolls, years?
500
Two things necessary for making a prediction
What are details from the story and prior knowledge?
500
If you do something ________________ you do it constantly or without stopping.
What is incessantly?