VOCABULARY
SHORT STORIES
LITERARY TERMS
ENGLISH REVIEW
ENGLISH REVIEW 2
100

What part of speech is "pretty"?

ADJECTIVE

100

What is when and where a story takes place?

SETTING

100

A direct comparison with an object without using like or as.

METAPHOR

100

What are the nouns in the sentence?

She quickly jogged into the store after her windy afternoon walk.

She (pronoun)

Store

Walk

100

What is the literary term for writing that you can see, hear, feel, smell, or taste?

Sensory Imagery

200

What is a counterargument?

An argument from the other side, often with an opposite opinion.

200

What does TONE mean?

the author's attitude in a story

200

A word used to describe an extreme exaggeration.

HYPERBOLE

200

A word that describes or modifies a noun 

ADJECTIVE

200

A word that has the same meaning.

SYNONYM

300

What is an antonym?

The opposite meaning of a certain word.

300

What is the main message or takeaway of a story?

THEME

300

IDENTIFY THE LITERARY TECHNIQUE:

The moon winked at me as it twinkled in the sky.

PERSONIFICATION

300

A complex sentence is made up of 

one independent and one dependent clause

300

A story written about someone's life written by the same person.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

400

This word is when author's give human characteristics to something nonhuman.

What is personification?

400

What is the end of a story called on the plot diagram?

RESOLUTION

400

What word is a comparison that uses like or as?

SIMILE

400

List at least one FIRST PERSON PRONOUN

I, ME, OR MY

400

 Words taken from text to support an idea.

TEXT EVIDENCE

500

What figurative language is used to mimic the way a word sounds?

What is an onomatopoeia? 

500

How many parts are on the plot diagram?

5 (Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution). 

500

Identify the literary technique:

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

HYPERBOLE

500

A story that has made up characters and events.

FICTION

500

The appropriate tone for an email to a college professor

Formal Tone

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