Types of Writing
Poetry Terms
Story Elements
Figurative Language
ELA Grab Bag
100

A story written about a moment in someone's life

A memoir

100

A group of lines in a poem

Stanza

100

The time and place in a story

Setting
100

Language that appeals to the senses

Imagery/sensory language.


100

The correct puntuation mark at the end of a question.

A question mark

200

Writing that is not prose or drama

poetry


200

A single row of words in poetry

a line

200

The message or lesson learned from a story

the theme

200

Giving human traits to non-human things

Personification

200

A word that describes a noun

an adjective

300

A story with a beginning, middle, and end

Narrative

300

The voice that "talks" in a poem

The speaker

300

The sequence of events in a story

the plot

300

A repetition of sound in the beginning of the word.

Alliteration

300

A word that is an action

a verb
400

A real story written by the person who experienced it.

autobiography

400

Repitition of similar ending sounds

rhyme

400

A person, animal, or creature in a story

a character
400

A saying that is not meant literally

(It's raining cats and dogs)

(I could eat a horse)

An idiom

400

What is the opposite of a synonym?

An antonym

500

Writing in verse with stanzas and lines

poetry


500

A Comparison using like or as

A simile

500

The struggle within a story

conflict

500

A direct comparison between two things

A Metaphor

500

The meaning of -nym and its root

Greek - name

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