ELA Terms

What is the time and place of a story?

• theme
• plot
• setting
• characterization

What is writing that is not factual?

• biography
• fiction
• nonfiction
• autobiography

What are the problems or struggles in a story?

• conflict
• plot
• fiction
• setting

What are the series of events that tell what happen in a story?

• plot
• setting
• characterization
• fiction

What is a reference to something well known such as the Bible or mythology?

• theme
• conflict
• plot
• allusion

What is the central idea of a story?

• plot
• theme
• setting
• symbol

What is an incident in the story where an author goes back in time to explain something that happened earlier?

• flashback
• foreshadowing

What is the vantage point from which a story is told?

• foreshadowing
• symbol
• plot
• point of view

What is the story of a person's life as told by him/herself?

• autobiography
• biography

What is the story of a person's life as told by someone else?

• biography
• autobiography