Poetry
What is a grouping of lines in a poem?
What is a Stanza?
What type of text is written by the author and tells a significant story or event from his life?
What is an autobiography?
What is a comparison of two subjects with words using like or as:
What is a simile
Which word could best replace the word notice? (observe, overlook, neglect)
What is Observe?
What are the events leading up to the climax of a story referred to as?
Rising Actions
What is the term that involves giving human qualities to non-living items?
Personification
What genre of literature tells a story or narrative?
What is fiction?
What is another name for a great exaggeration?
What is a hyperbole?
Describe in your own words what a conflict is within a story?
Key Words: problem, fight, disagreement, argument, between characters
A character to bullies, mistreats, or unfairly punishes other characters within a story is known as the:
What is an Antagonist?
Which of these is the writing style of poet Edgar Alan Poe? (Gothic, American, Romantic)
What is Gothic?
Were you asked to find a synonym for the word happy, what library resource would be of the best help?
What is a thesaurus?
When a reader recalls the different events that happened in a story he read; he is reciting the books ________ ___ _______.
What is a Sequence Of Events?
Fact or Opinion? There are 365 days in a year.
What is a fact?
In the story, The Tiger, Or the Lady?, the tiger represents death: this is an example of _______?
What is symbolism?
What type of poem does not require a rhyme scheme or set pattern of stanzas?
What is a free-verse poem?
What type of novel was Night by Elie Wiesel?
Historical/ Nonfiction/ Autobiography
Complete the following analogy: Motorists is to vehicle, as cashier is too: (Cash Register, Shopping Cart, Dollar Bill)
What is Cash Register
What is an antonym?
What is a word with an opposite meaning of a given word: Example (Happy; sad)
In your own words: What is the theme of a novel?
The overall point, message, observation, main idea, lesson of a story
When a writer uses words that make people feel sad within a poem, he may be trying to influence the ______ of the poem.
What is mood?
When a reader recalls the different events that happened in a story he read; he is reciting the books ________ ___ _______.
What is a sequence of events?
Provide an example of a metaphor
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In your own words: What is the difference between denotation and connotation?
Connotation is an association that comes to mind with a word. A word's denotation is it's literal translation
What was one theme of "The Lady, or the Tiger?"
Possible answers: love, duty, enemies