Poetry
Figurative language
Who is talking?
Story time
Words
100
Poet
Who is the author of a poem?
100
Figurative language
What is is the use of words that go beyond their ordinary meaning. It requires you to use your imagination to figure out the author's? meaning.
100
Characters
Who are people in the story?
100
Plot
What is the action of a story?
100
Phrase
What is a group of words?
200
Poem
What is a composition in verse?
200
Simile
What is a comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as?
200
Narrator
Who is the person telling the story?
200
Setting
What is the time and place of the action?
200
Antonym
What is a word that means thae opposite?
300
Sensory words
What are words that describe something we can taste, feel, hear, smell, or see?
300
Metaphor
What is a comparison of two different things to show a likeness between them?
300
Point of view
What is the position or angle from which the story is told?
300
Problem
What is the situation in a story that needs to be solved?
300
Synonym
What is a word that means the same?
400
Rhyme
What are words that have the same vowel sounds and the same final consonants?
400
Alliteration
What is is the repetition (repeating) of a consonant sound at the beginning of two or more words that are next to each other or near each other?
400
First person
What is the point of view when one of the charcters tells the story?
400
Climax
What is the most exciting or important part in the story, the turning point, the AHHH! moment?
400
Root
What is a word or word base from which other words are made by adding a prefix or suffix?
500
Stanza
What are a group of lines in a poem?
500
personification
What is the technique of giving a non-human thing human qualities such as hearing, feeling, talking, or making decisions?
500
Third person
What is the point of view when someone on the outside of the story who is telling the story?
500
Resolution
What is the end part of the story, when the problem is solved?
500
Homonym
What is a word that has more than one meaning?
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