Sound Devices
Non-fiction ELA Terms
Fiction ELA Terms
Famous characters in literature
Figurative language
Rhyme Scheme and poem types
100

A sound device where words sound similar. 

"Cat" and "Hat" 

What is Rhyme?

100

Who or What the text is mainly about. 

What is central idea? or What is main idea?

100

The deeper message or lesson about life that an author conveys through storytelling.

What is theme?

100

A girl who stands as tribute for Prim.

Who is Katniss Everdeen? 

100

"The children pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds, intermixed,"

This type of figurative language is called this.

What is simile? 

100

A group of words together like a paragraph but found in poetry.

What is a stanza?

200

A sound device where words are repeated together for emphasis. 

"we loved with a love that was more than love"

What is repetition?

200

Logos is an appeal to this type of thinking.

What is logic? or

What is logical thinking?

200

A situation that the audience is aware of that a character is not aware of.

What is dramatic irony? 

200

The boy who flew too close to the sun. 

Who is Icarus?

200

"I think the sun is a flower."

This type of figurative language is called this.

What is metaphor?

200

This Japanese poem has 3 lines. 5-7-5 syllables in each line.

What is a haiku? 

300
A word that is also a sound. "Woof" or "crash" is an example.

What is onomatopoeia?

300

The reason an author is writer. Usually, to persuade, entertain, or inform. 

What is author's purpose? 

300

The text structure most commonly used in fiction writing is called this, Latin for "In the order of time"

What is chronological?

300

This greedy character who boldly claimed that, "A Thneed's a fine something that all people need."

Who is the Once-ler?

300

“Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –  
And Immortality.” 

This type of figurative language is called this.

What is personificiation?

300

This Shakespearean type of poem that has 14 lines. 

The rhyme scheme is: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

What is (English) sonnet? 

400

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. "The angels, not half so happy in heaven,"

What is Alliteration?

400

This genre of non-fiction, written by an author who tells their own story about their life. 

What is autobiography?

400

An indication or warning of something to come in a story. "You'll put a curse on us all!"

What is foreshadowing? 

400

He slayed the minotaur. 

Who is Theseus? 

400

"Then they closed the door and heard the gigantic sound of rain falling in tons and avalanches, everywhere and forever"

This kind of exaggeration is called this.

What is hyperbole?

400

A pair of consecutive lines in poetry that rhyme.

"In her sepulcher there by the sea—

 In her tomb by the sounding sea."

What is a couplet? 

500

Patterns of stressed or unstressed syllables in poetry that creates a specific rhythm. One example sounds like a heart beating. 

Double points for knowing the name of the heart beat rhythm.

What is meter? 

(Bonus: What is Iambic pentameter?)

500

Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. (also a term in civics.)

What is propaganda?

500

The emotional aura that a work of fiction evokes in a reader. Stephen King, for example, would want you to be frightened. 

What is mood? 

500

This character fought a corrupt government who tried to obtain complete equality among all people. 

Who is Harrison Bergeron? 

500

A type of figurative language where someone says the exact opposite of what they really mean. 

What is verbal irony? 

500

The rhyme scheme of this poem could be identified as this pattern of letters.

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I’ve tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

What is ABAA?

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