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100What is onomotopoeia?
Words that are sounds.
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100What is an autobiography?
A story about a person's life written by that person.
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100What is a stanza?
A group of lines in a poem.
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100What is setting?
The time and place a story takes place.
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100What is main idea?
What the story is mainly about.
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200What is a simile?
"She is as beautiful as a rose" is an example of...
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200What is a biography?
A story about someone's life written by another person.
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200What is a narrative poem?
A poem that tells a story.
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200What is the climax?
The most exciting part of a story.
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200What is tone?
The way an author feels about his subject.
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300What is a hyperbole?
"I am as hungry as a bear" is an example of...
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300What is look for graphs, charts, illustrations?
A strategy used to read non-fiction.
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300What is a lyric poem?
A poem that expresses the feelings of the poet, is often short and does not tell a story.
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300What is the resolution?
The ending of a story.
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300What is mood?
The feeling the author creates in a story.
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400What is personification?
"The chair jumped across the room" is an example of...
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400What are subheadings?
Non-fiction articles often have these headings that separate ideas?
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400What is an epic?
A poem that tells a story, usually about an impressive hero that has a great journey to take.
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400What is first person?
Point of view that uses "I".
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400What is entertain, persuade and inform?
Three reasons an author writes.
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500What is a metaphor?
"The road was a ribbon of red" is an example of...
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500What is inform?
The main purpose of non-fiction is to...
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500What is a ballad?
A narrative poem which is sometimes called a tall tale because it uses exaggeration.
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500What is what the characters says, what the character does, and what others say about the character?
Three different ways the author reveals his characters.
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500What is read the questions?
What you should do before reading a selection.
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