Vocabulary
Narratives
Parts of a Story
Miscellaneous
Story Elements
100

A wooden frame used to weave cloth.

What is a loom?

100

A short story that teaches a simple moral lesson, usually with talking animals.

What is a fable?

100

These are the people, animals, etc. in a story.

What are the characters?

100

All forms of story.

What is a narrative?

100
A long speech by one person or character.

What is a monologue?

200

A harsh, cruel, or unfair ruler.

What is a tyrant?

200

A short story that teaches a moral lesson, always true to life.

What is a parable?

200
This is the place where the characters are at the beginning of the story.

What is the setting?

200

A word that has nearly the same meaning as another word.

What is a synonym?

200

A conversation between two or more people.

What is dialogue?

300

To eat greedily

What is devour?

300

A fanciful story for children, usually with magical people or creatures.

What is a  fairy tale?

300

This happens first.

What is the beginning?

300

Any imaginative story.

What is fiction?

300

A clash between people or ideas.

What is conflict?

400

The face

What is countenance?

400

An ancient story not based on actual events, with gods, goddesses, and heroes.

What is a myth?

400

This is where the problem starts.

What is the middle?

400

A noun that names a specific person, place, thing, or idea.

What is a proper noun?

400

The most important thought in a story or speech.

What is the main idea?

500

To put up with; to tolerate

What is stomach?

500

A narrative of actual events.

What is history?

500

This happens before you close the book.

What is the end?

500

Words inscribed on a grave marker.

What is an epitaph?

500

A character who changes in the course of a narrative.

What is a dynamic character?