Fiction
What literary term refers to the sequence of events in a story, including the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
What is the plot?
What is the central point or purpose of a non-fiction text, supported by evidence and details?
What is the main idea?
What device compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"?
What is a simile?
What is the root word meaning "life" in words like biology and autobiography?
What is bio?
What punctuation mark is used to separate items in a list?
What is a "comma"?
In literature, what term describes the perspective from which a story is told?
What is point of view?
When an author writes to teach readers about a specific topic, what is the purpose of their writing called?
What is to inform?
What device gives human qualities to non-human objects or abstract ideas?
What is personification?
What is the Greek root meaning "to hear"?
What is "aud" or "audi"?
In dialogue, what punctuation mark is used to indicate a speaker's exact words?
What are "quotation marks"?
What is the central lesson or insight about life that a story conveys?
What is theme?
In a non-fiction text, what organizational pattern presents information by listing examples or details in a particular order?
What is chronological order?
What device is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby words?
What is alliteration?
What prefix means "within" or "inside"?
What is "intra"?
In compound sentences, what punctuation mark is used before the coordinating conjunction?
What is a "comma"?
In "The Hunger Games," this type of conflict is prevalent throughout the story as Katniss Everdeen struggles against the oppressive Capitol.
What is "man versus society"?
What type of statement can be proven to be true or false based on evidence?
What is a fact?
What device is a figure of speech that combines contradictory terms?
What is an oxymoron?
What is the Greek root meaning "to see"?
What is "vis or vid"?
What punctuation mark is used to join two independent clauses without a coordinating conjunction?
What is a "semi-colon"?
In "Romeo and Juliet," this literary device occurs when the audience knows Juliet is not actually dead, but Romeo believes she is.
When a writer's opinion influences how they present information in a non-fiction text, what is this called?
What is bias?
What device is a reference to a well-known person, event, or piece of literature?
What is an allusion?
What prefix means "under" or "below"?
What is "sub"?
What punctuation mark is used to indicate possession or to form contractions?
What is an "apostrophe"?