Creative Writing Terms (Grade 2)

It is an element about the place and the time in a story.

• character

• setting

• theme

• plot

The three little pigs are the ___________ in the story.

• characters

• setting

• theme

• plot

This is the order of events in a story.

• characters

• setting

• theme

• plot

Friendship, family, love, and kindness are examples of ___________.

• characters

• setting

• theme

• plot

TRUE or FALSE: A story's title is not important since the content is what really matters.

• TRUE

• FALSE

What do you call the story where animals act and speak like humans?

• fable

• poem

• short story

• animal story

Read the lines from the song below:

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are.

Up above the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky.

The words star-are and high-sky are examples of _______________

• rhyming words

• synonyms

• verbs

• phrases

TRUE or FALSE: Poems are creative writings as well, just like short stories.

• TRUE

• FALSE

____________ are words we use to describe nouns and pronouns. They are very important in writing a story.

• Adjectives

• Verbs

• Nouns

• Prepositions

In writing, we make use of our 5 senses. They are the sense of sight, sense of smell, sense of hearing, sense of touch, and sense of ___________.

• taste

• love

• movement

• speaking