Literary Terms
Figurative Language
Plot
Grammar
Pot Luck
100
A story that explains something something about the world and usually involves gods or supernatural power.
What is myth?
100
language that appeals to the senses
What is imagery
100
When one of the characters, using the personal pronoun "I", tells the story
What is first person point of view?
100
the part of speech for the word fantastic
What is an adjective?
100

According to Mrs. Watterson, how many times should you read a poem?

What is three?
200

The division of a poem, similar to a paragraph in a story. 

What is stanza?

200
a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings or traits
What is personification?
200
the general idea or insight about life that a work of literature reveals
What is theme?
200
the two types (categories) of verbs
What are action and linking (being)?
200
the words and sentences surrounding a word that help you infer its meaning
What are context clues?
300
An educated guess based on a hint or clue from the text.
What is an inference?
300
an imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another
What is a metaphor?
300
a character that opposes the protagonist
What is the antagonist?
300

Name five prepositions.

What is ?

300

the arrangement of events in the order which they occurred

What is chronological order?

400
The attitude the author takes towards his or her subject, characters, and audience.
What is tone?
400
an expression peculiar to a particular language that means something different from the literal meaning
What is an idiom?
400
the writer's most important point or message that can be stated directly or implied
What is the central (or main) idea?
400
the type of sentence that is made up of a dependent and independent clause
What is a complex sentence?
400

a musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables

What is rhythm?

500
A reference to something not explicity stated in the text.
What is an illusion?
500

the term for overstating something, usually for the purpose of creating a comic effect

What is hyperbole?

500
when a character struggles with an outside force
What is external conflict?
500

a clause that cannot stand alone

What is a dependent clause?

500

a meaning, association, or emotion suggested by a word, in addition to its dictionary definition

What is connotation?

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