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Author's Purpose, Plot, Theme
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What is life or human behavior?
What is Being Different is What Makes Us Special?
What is To Inform?
What is the Plot?
What is Don't Judge a Book By It's Cover?
What is the Resolution?
What is Simile?
What is First Person Point of View.
What is To Persuade?
What is the climax?
What is To Persuade, To Inform, To Entertain?
What is To Entertain?
What is a Fact?
What is Conflict?
What is To Entertain?
What is the Rising Action?
What is the Topic or Main Idea?
What is FALSE?
What is FALSE?
What is Fiction?
What is Metaphor?
What is Hard Work Pays Off?
What is the Falling Action?
What is To Persuade?
What is the Exposition?
An author usually writes what the theme is at the beginning of the story.
An advertisement selling Nike shoes.
A true story written about the life of Abraham Lincoln.
Explains how the conflict is resolved.
I am a zombie without my coffee is an example of this type of comparison.
The message about ______ or ____________ is the theme.
The most exciting part of the story or the turning point.
True or False: A theme can be written in one or two words.
The theme of the Three Little Pigs.
Develops the conflict and builds suspense.
When something is made up or can not be proved.
She is AS thin as a snake is an example of this type of comparison.
Something that IS true or can be proved.
Introduces the characters, setting, and hints at the conflict.
The novel, Lupita Manana.
Suspense eases and the conflict begins to come to a close.
When the narrator IS part of theaction, and the story uses me, I, or my.
The problem in the story.
The Sunday comics is an example of this Author's Purpose.
What the story is mainly about is called this.
The theme of The Ugly Duckling.
A series of events in the story.
The three reasons why an author writes a story.
A commercial.
The theme of Beauty and the Beast.

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True or False: A theme can be written in one or two words.What is FALSE?
The theme of the Three Little Pigs.What is Hard Work Pays Off?
An author usually writes what the theme is at the beginning of the story.What is FALSE?
The theme of The Ugly Duckling.What is Being Different is What Makes Us Special?
The theme of Beauty and the Beast.What is Don't Judge a Book By It's Cover?
A commercial.What is To Persuade?
The Sunday comics is an example of this Author's Purpose.What is To Entertain?
A true story written about the life of Abraham Lincoln.What is To Inform?
An advertisement selling Nike shoes.What is To Persuade?
The novel, Lupita Manana.What is To Entertain?
Explains how the conflict is resolved.What is the Resolution?
Introduces the characters, setting, and hints at the conflict.What is the Exposition?
Develops the conflict and builds suspense.What is the Rising Action?
The most exciting part of the story or the turning point.What is the climax?
Suspense eases and the conflict begins to come to a close.What is the Falling Action?
The problem in the story.What is Conflict?
A series of events in the story.What is the Plot?
The message about ______ or ____________ is the theme.What is life or human behavior?
The three reasons why an author writes a story.What is To Persuade, To Inform, To Entertain?
What the story is mainly about is called this.What is the Topic or Main Idea?
When something is made up or can not be proved.What is Fiction?
Something that IS true or can be proved.What is a Fact?
When the narrator IS part of theaction, and the story uses me, I, or my.What is First Person Point of View.
She is AS thin as a snake is an example of this type of comparison.What is Simile?
I am a zombie without my coffee is an example of this type of comparison.What is Metaphor?