10th Grade
When a narrator uses "I, Me," it is written in this perspective.
What is First Person?
A written account of another person's life.
What is a biography?
How an adverb is used in a sentence.
What is describes a verb?
When a writer creates and develops character personalities.
What is characterization?
A conclusion a reader makes based on text evidence and prior knowledge.
What is inference?
Comparison without using like or as?
What is a metaphor?
When the narrator uses "She, He, they" it is written in this perspective.
What is Third Person?
A word opposite in meaning to another.
What is an antonym?
A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun. Example: gentle, helpful, small.
What is Adjective?
A message about life or human nature in a story.
What is theme?
The reason an author writes a text.
What is the author's purpose?
Giving an inanimate object or item a sense of being alive.
What is personification?
The author's feelings in a piece of writing.
What is tone?
The available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.
What is evidence?
The time and place of a story.
What is setting?
The series of events in a story.
What is plot?
A moment in a story when the narrative returns to an earlier event or time.
What is a flashback?
Words used to describe a sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
This is an extreme exaggeration used for effect.
What is a hyperbole?
A record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation.
What is a memoir?
The turning point or most intense moment of a story.
What is the climax?
The most important concepts the writer wants readers to understand.
What is main ideas?
The evidence used to support a claim or argument.
What are supporting details?
Combining contradictory words for effect.
What is an oxymoron?
The repetition of beginning consonant sounds in nearby words.
What is alliteration?
A style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words.
What is diction?
Words spoken between characters?
What is dialogue?
The reason behind an author writing a piece of literature or prose.
What is author's purpose?
Examining something carefully to understand it.
What is analysis?
Language that appeals to the five senses.
What is imagery?
This comparison uses "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing.
What is ridicule?
The central message or lesson of a story.
What is theme?
A group of lines forming the basic, repeating unit in a poem?
What is a stanza?
What is a motif?
Calling something to mind without mentioning it.
An indirect reference.
What is an allusion?