Literary Devices
Short Story Terms
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Punctuation
Parts of Speech
Random Trivia
100

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. WHAT LITERARY DEVICE IS USED HERE?

Alliteration

100

This form of conflict can be seen in "I've Got Gloria" when Scott starts to feel the emotions of guilt and remorse for his prank.

Person vs. self conflict

100

In English, we call them parentheses. What is the term in math and science?

Brackets

100

This is the term for a person, place, or thing that you can physically touch.

A concrete noun.
100

How many of the planets in our solar system have rings?

4: Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus and Saturn

200

I asked my dad to drive me to the movies but he couldn't because he was drowning in a sea of paperwork. WHAT LITERARY DEVICE IS USED HERE?

A metaphor.

200

This short story term analyzes the emotions that a reader experiences while reading a story.

Mood

200

This piece of punctuation is used to introduce a list or explanation.

A colon

200

The dog with the MUDDY coat just ran out of the yard. To what part of speech does the word MUDDY apply?

Adjective

200

This popular condiment (sauce) was originally sold in pill form to help cure diarrhea.

Ketchup

300

In the movie Frozen, Hans reveals himself to the audience as a villain before Anna knows that he is evil. What is the term for situations where the audience has more information than the characters involved?

Dramatic irony

300

This is the point on the plot graph directly after the climax, just before the resolution or end of the story.

Falling action

300

This piece of punctuation is used to indicate possession or to combine words into contractions.

An apostrophe

300

Name the part of speech that shows how a person or thing connects to the rest of the sentence by describing its time, position, or direction.
(ex. The fork fell under the table)

Preposition

300

How many of Snow White's seven dwarves have names ending in the letter 'y'?

FIVE: Sleepy, Happy, Grumpy, Sneezy and Dopey

400

The door of the haunted house whined in protest as I pulled it open. WHAT LITERARY DEVICE IS BEING USED HERE? 

Personification

400

This is the term for a major character whose personality is fully developed and described, showing multiple character traits and depth.

A round character

400

What TWO DIFFERENT pieces of punctuation could possibly be used to separate two complete and related sentences?

A period or a semicolon

400

The cat quietly crept across the room. What word in this sentence is an ADVERB?

Quietly.

400

The average human body does this action 14 to 17 times per minute.

Blinks.

500

It's been raining so long that I feel like I should build an ark. WHAT LITERARY DEVICE IS USED HERE?

An allusion.

500

This is the term for a narrator that has access to the thoughts, ideas and emotions of all the characters involved in a story.

Third-person omniscient

500

This is the term for the optional comma that can be added before a conjunction, like in this example:I bought shoes, a new jacket, and a hat.

Oxford comma

500

How many conjunctions can be found in the following sentence?: I wanted to go for a run and read my book, but it started to rain, so I stayed inside instead.

THREE: I wanted to go for a run and read my book, but it started to rain, so I stayed inside instead.

500

What is the Scoville scale used to measure?

The spiciness of food.

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