Literary Terms
More Literary Terms
Alphabetical Order
Chronological Order
Recycling
100
A daily record of personal events, thoughts, or feelings. (The History of the Plymouth Plantation is one)
What is a diary
100
Stretching the truth a great deal.
What is exaggeration?
100
Put these words is alphabetical order: kangaroo ant elephant chicken
What is ant, chicken, elephant, kangaroo?
100
In chrolonogical order, the first event would be the one that happened when?
What is first?
100
This natural resource is conserved (saved) when we recycle paper.
What are trees?
200
Writing that the author makes up. NOT A TRUE STORY!!! Describes imaginary characters and made up events.
What is fiction?
200
One who tells a story
What is a narrator?
200
This would come first alphabetically: Marie or Nancy?
What is Marie?
200
Which happened first: Pilgrims land at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620 or Christopher Columbus reached Cuba in 1492?
What is Coloumbus in 1492?
200
These types of recycables have an identification number on the bottom to help people sort them.
What are plastics?
300
Writing that explains or describes real, actual events and actual people.
What is nonfiction?
300
A figure of speech that makes a comparison and does NOT use the words “like” or “as.”
What is a metaphor?
300
This word would come first alphabetically? cat car cab cash
What is cab?
300
Who's birthday would come first chronologically? Joe: March 5, 1970 Andy: November 15, 1967 Dave: February 7, 1971
Who is Andy?
300
Which of these items would you throw away in the "regular trash?" plastic bottle, dinner scraps, old newspapers?
What is dinner scraps?
400
Written as if someone is telling the story (uses “I” and “me”)
What is first person point of view?
400
The feeling that writing creates. (Does it make you happy, sad, scared, laugh?)
What is mood?
400
Which country would come first alphabetically? Spain Icleand Greece France
What is France?
400
Put the following events in order chronogically. 1754: French and Indian War 1803: Louisiana Purchase 1775: Battles of Lexington and Concord
What is French and Indian War, Lexington and Concord, then LA Purchase
400
Recycling diminishes the need for new raw materials. In this sentence, what does "diminishes" mean? increases helps reduces
What is reduces?
500
A humorous form of writing that makes fun of some part of society.
What is a satire?
500
A story that explains how some things in the natural world came to be.
What is a myth?
500
Put these states in alphabetical order: Georgia North Carolina Alabama New Hampshire
What is Alabama, Georgia, New Hampshire, North Carolina?
500
Put these wars in chronological order by the year each started. Korean War: 1950 World War I: 1914 Civil War: 1861 WWII: 1939
What is Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korean War,
500
Inks and dyes must to be washed off of this recycleable before it can be re-used.
What is paper?
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