Fiction
These are the people in a story.
Who are characters?
This is what it's called when two words or lines end with the same sound.
What is rhyme?
This is a group of sentences structured around one main idea.
What is a paragraph?
"Her eyes were like clear blue crystals" is an example of this figurative language.
What is a simile?
This term refers to the highest point of tension in a story, which may be a big fight, a confrontation, a contest, or a moment of realization.
What is climax?
This is the bigger message or lesson of the story.
What is the theme?
This is a group of lines with blank space on either side.
What is a stanza?
This text structure includes information about similarities and differences between two things.
What is compare and contrast?
"My mom is going to murder me when she sees these grades" is an example of this figurative language.
What is hyperbole?
This is a phrase or description in writing that appeals to readers' sense of sight, hearing, smell, taste or touch.
What is sensory detail?
This is the person whose voice the story is told in.
Who is the narrator?
This is the person whose voice a poem is told in (not necessarily the poet him/herself).
Who is the speaker?
This is a list of vocabulary words and their definitions.
What is a glossary?
"Life is a long and winding road" is an example of this form of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
This nonfiction text structure gives general facts and information about a subject.
What is descriptive?
This is a problem between (at least two) people or forces.
What is conflict?
This is the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem, and can be written as AABB, ABAB, ABCD, etc.
What is rhyme scheme?
This kind of sentence adds more evidence and detail to the main idea.
What is a supporting detail?
"My bookbag weighs a ton" is an example of this form of figurative language.
This "lesson" is the point that a folk tale is made up to illustrate.
What is the moral?
This is what the character WANTS or NEEDS that drives their actions in the story. (love, money, freedom, survival, fame, etc)
What is motivation?
This is a unit of sound that is pronounced with more emphasis when read out loud, such as CLASSroom or ballOON.
This text structure tells events that happened at a specific time in order of when they happened.
What is chronological?
"My car has gotten a little grumpy with age, and she doesn't like cold mornings" is an example of this figurative language.
What is personification?
This is the feeling created by the setting and atmosphere in a story.
What is mood?