| A | B |
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| Setting | where and when something happened |
| Characters | people or animals in stories (WHO) |
| Story Mapping | mapping a story in three parts – the beginning, the middle, and the end |
| Problem | usually in the middle of the story, situation that needs to be solved (WHAT) |
| Solution | usually at the end of the story, how the story was solved (HOW) |
| Similes | a sentence using like or as to compare two things |
| Humor | funny things that make people laugh |
| Author’s purpose | authors write to teach or to entertain |
| Reality | something that could happen in real life |
| Fantasy | something that is imaginary or couldn’t happen in real life |
| Biography | the story of a real person’s life |
| Fables | special kind of make-believe story with a moral |
| Moral | in a fable the character gets into trouble, learns a lesson, the lesson learned is the moral |
| Tall Tales | a story about people or animals who do amazing or unbelievable things and exaggerates a story so that it could never, ever, ever be true |
| Poetry | used to: tell a story another way, express thoughts and feelings, creates pictures with words, sometimes it rhymes |
| Imagination | when you pretend |
| Imagery | imagination in poetry |
