Genres
Poetry
Parts of Speech
Punctuation
Potluck
100
A short piece of fiction. Ex. "Seventh Grade" by Gary Soto
What is short story?
100
Language that appeals to the five senses. Ex. "I touched the rough bark of the tree and smelled the fresh cut grass."
What is imagery?
100
A person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
100
Separates three or more items in a series.
What is a comma (,)?
100
The central idea or insight revealed by a work of literature, the moral life lesson.
What is theme?
200
A long fictional text, usually more than fifty thousand words.
What is a novel?
200
A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a comic effect.
What is a hyperbole?
200
Describes the noun.
What is an adjective?
200
Used in contractions, used to show possession, and used instead of numbers.
What is an apostrophe (')?
200
The attitude of the author toward his/her audience and characters
What is tone?
300
A text where situation and characters are invented by the writer.
What is fiction?
300
Any object, person, place, or experience that represents something else.
What is symbolism?
300
Joins words together.
What is a conjunction?
300
Used to introduce a list, used after a greeting in a letter, and used between the numbers showing time.
What is a colon (:)?
300
The feeling created by a literary work or passage
What is mood/atmosphere?
400
A nonfiction account of an individual's life, written by another person.
What is a biography?
400
A structured pattern of rhyme (a/a/b/b).
What is rhyme scheme?
400
shows surprise.
What is interjection?
400
Used to combine two sentences together without using linking words.
What is a semilcolon (;)?
400
Contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality.
What is irony
500
A nonfiction account of a person's life written by that person using the first person point of view.
What is an autobiography?
500
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things using a connective word such as like or as.
What is simile?
500
Tells of something being done.
What is a verb?
500
Used before and after words that show conversation, and used for special words or slang.
What are quotation marks (")?
500
Type or metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human
What is personification?
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