Explain each keyword in your own words: 1. author’s purpose: 2. chronological order: 3. conflict: 4. flashback: 5. foreshadowing: 6. narrative techniques: 7. pace: 8. parallel plots:

1. Authors purpose is the message they’re trying to show or convey in the story

2. Chronological order is a series of events that happen in the story one after the other

3. Conflict can be any problem or obstacle designed to stop or set back the main protagonist from the goal in the story

4. A flashback is a memory to a previous event that happened in the story, typically triggered by an action

5. Foreshadowing is when you can infer or predict what is going to happen in the story

6. Narrative techniques are methods the author uses to try to convey the message or make the message clear in the story

7. Pacing shows how fast a story unfolds or can unfold, typically if the story is long because readers can get frustrated with the length of the book

8. Parallel plots the author can tie in 2 or more dramatic plots linked by a common character and similar theme.

a. to introduce the audience to important characters .

b. to inform the audience where the story takes place .

e. to lay out specific details about different plot points.

  one day samantha and her brother carson was walking in a path then samantha's brother carson almost stepped on something on the ground "carson, stop! " she shouted "huh, why? " he stopped "beacause, this" she says picking this mysterious object off of the ground it looked like a smart watch but there was another under it, one of them was gold one was silver. "woah, smart watches! " carson said "yeah, woah, you want gold or silver? " sam said "ummm, i'll take silver" carson smiled

  when they put it on it started to glow but no one was around, wafter 30 seconds of waiting a small silver dragon   came to carson, about the same time a golden lion came to samantha. "carson you need to get us some where safe so all of us can talk." the dragon said in his squeaky voice "by the way im silvester"   he said "we need to also samantha, im goldy." she said in her sqeaky voice.

  samantha and carson were suprised, scared and happy at the same time, so they took the little animals to their shed that nobody but them go into. "so where did you guys come from? " samantha said as they all sat down, "goldy and i, came from a far away land called zelda 101," silvester said "we are partners looking to find two human partners and you two are the perfect type, we could all be a team in zelda 101 and many other places that need certant things." goldy said "would you be willing? " silvester said

  "most definetly! " they both yelled "shh" silvester and goldy shouted. "ohh sorry" samantha and carson said.