Writing
Elements of a Storytelling
The Giver
100

In this type of writing, evidence and details on a topic are presented but not the author's opinion.

What is Informative, informational, or explanatory?

100

The people in a story are called this.

What are CHARACTERS?

100

This is the month in which the Ceremony of Twelve takes place.

What is December?

200

The term for stealing other people’s writing or ideas and passing them off as your own.                       

What is PLAGIARISM?

200

This is the main problem in a story.

What is conflict?

200

Lily's 'comfort object'.

What is an elephant?

300

A statement that includes your claim and reasons and is found in your introduction.

What is a THESIS?

300

The type of figurative language found in the phrase "I've told you a million times!"

What is hyperbole?

300

The Giver's genre of writing, which often presenting an imagined future society where people lead lives of oppression and/or dehumanization.

What is dystopian?

400

In an argumentative essay, this appears after presenting the counterargument and its evidence.

What is a Rebuttal?

400

This is the longest portion of a story (and of plot mountain).

What is the rising action?

400

This is the job assignment Asher is given.

What is Assistant Director of Recreation

500

A device used to get the reader's attention at the start of the introduction

 What is a HOOK?

500
This Point of View is characterized by the narrator talking often directly to "you," the reader.

What is second person perspective.

500

This is Jonas's number.

What is nineteen?