Story Elements 1
What compares two things using "like" or "as"?
What is a simile?
Spicy, salty, sweet, tangy.
These are all sensory words related to
What is taste?
A conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.
What is dialogue?
"I CAN MOVE MY HAND!!" I yelled.
What can we infer Peg is feeling based on this excerpt?
What is amazed/astonished/surprised?
A disease that caused an epidemic in the US from in the early 1900s. A lot like the flu.
What is polio?
What compares two things as if they are the same?
What is a metaphor?
Loud, quiet.
These are sensory words related to
What is sound?
putting things in order of when they happened
"He's wrong, I thought. I miss my own room, and playing with B.J. and helping Grandpa in the garden. I miss my piano lessons and roller skating.."
Based on this excerpt, what can we infer about how Peg is feeling?
What is sad/homesick?
A medical device that breathes for you where only your head sticks out.
What is the iron lung?
What is the ending of a piece of writing?
What is the conclusion?
Bumpy, smooth, sharp, rough.
These are sensory words related to
What is touch?
Verbs that writers use that are stronger than basic ones
What is a vital verb?
"We were safe at Sheltering Arms, cocooned in Room 202."
Based on this excerpt, how does the room make Peg feel?
What is safe/protected?
A medical device used during the polio epidemic to help increase your oxygen levels. Normally is the last step before a patient is put into the iron lung.
What is an oxygen tent?
A word that connects different parts of a story? (First, Next, Then, Finally)
What is a transition word?
Color, shape, size
These are sensory words related to
What is sight?
Introduces the main idea of a the story, almost always the first sentence.
What is a topic sentence?
"Our jaws dropped. We gazed at him and each other in complete astonishment."
Based on this excerpt, what can we infer about how Peg and her roommates are feeling?
What is amazed/excited/surprised?
What kind of symptoms does polio have?
What are flu-like symptoms?
Why something happens and what happens as a result.
What is cause and effect?
Scent, smelly, stinky
These are sensory words related to
What is smell?
Final thoughts about the ideas in a paragraph or story. Almost always starts with "Finally."
What is a concluding sentence?
"I drank the whole milkshake and never choked once, even though I was lying flat on my back the whole time. When I made a loud slurping sound with my straw because the container was empty, my parents clapped and cheered. The relieved nurses cheered with them."
Based on this excerpt, is everyone feeling in this scene?
What is relieved/excited/proud?
The loss of the ability to move or feel in parts of the body due to illness or injury.
What is paralysis?