Grammar
This is a person, place, thing or idea
What is a noun?
This type of writing tells a story
What is Narrative?
This is the time and place of a story
What is the setting?
This is a comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
Words that sound alike, but have different spellings and meanings
What is a homophone?
This is the action of a sentence (unless it's a "linking" type)
What is a verb?
This type of writing informs people on a subject
What is informative/expository?
These are the people, animals or creatures in a story.
What are the characters?
This is a comparison NOT using "like" or "as", and which often uses the verb "to be"
This is the emotion associated with a word
What is connotation?
This is "everywhere a mouse can go" (i.e., "into" the hole, "across" the room, "under" the bridge)
What is a preposition?
This Point-Of-View (of narration) uses the pronoun "You", and is often used in cookbooks or how-to manuals
This is the most exciting part of a story
What is a climax?
This is the basic unit/paragraph of a poem
What is a stanza?
This is a type of noun that cannot be detected with our senses
What is abstract?
"I", "Me", "She" and "We" are examples of this part of speech
What is a pronoun?
What is imperative?
This is the background of a story
What is the exposition?
This is a word that mimics the sound it refers to
What is onomatopoeia?
This is a type of poem that is typically about nature, has 3 lines and has a syllable count of 5-7-5
These usually end in "-ly", although there are exceptions (such as "soon", "never", etc.)
What is an adverb?
This type of writing tries to convince or persuade people to believe in an idea
What is persuasive or argumentative?
This is the problem of a story
What is the conflict?
Giving human characteristics to something nonhuman
What is personification?
This prefix means "under"
What is "sub"?