Literary Texts
The location and time in which a story takes place.
A) Theme
B) Setting
C) Character
D) Verb
What is the setting?
B)
A list of words and definitions.
A) Imagery
B) Glossary
C) Conclusion
D) Climax
What is the glossary?
B)
A word that means almost the same thing.
A) Synonym
B) Homonym
C) Homograph
D) Main Idea
What is a synonym?
A)
Bud walked over to the woodpile as cool as a cucumber.
A) Simile
B) Metaphor
C) Example
D) Dictionary
What is a simile?
A)
A piece of writing that tells a story. It has characters, settings, and a plot.
A) Narrative
B) Non Fiction
C) Bibliography
D) Plot
What is a narrative?
A)
This is when a character is talking.
A) Dialogue
B) Plot
C) Setting
D) Adjective
What is dialogue?
A)
A picture that includes labels of certain parts.
A) Picture
B) Label
C) Diagram
D) Comparison
What is a diagram?
C)
A word that means the opposite.
A) Homophone
B) Antonym
C) Outline
D) Introduction
What is an antonym?
B)
"The stars were candles guiding the weary travelers" is an example of this.
A) Metaphor
B) Hyperbole
C) Onomatopoeia
D) Editing
What is a metaphor?
A)
This type of writing convinces the reader to do something or to agree with something.
A) Narrative
B) Persuasive
C) Conjuction
D) Declarative
What is persuasive writing?
B)
This is the list of people in a play.
A) Stage Directions
B) Props
C) Cast of Characters
D) People
What is the cast of characters?
C)
A passage that is explained in order of when the events happened uses this text structure.
A) Chronological order
B) Encyclopedia
C) Figurative Language
D) Idiom
What is chronological order?
A)
This reference lists synonyms for words.
A) Dictionary
B) Index
C) Thesaurus
D) Paragraph
What is a thesaurus?
C)
"This cat weights a ton" is an example of this.
A) Simile
B) Hyperbole
C) Idiom
D) Character
What is a hyperbole?
B)
This type of writing provides facts and explains something.
A) Narrative
B) Persuasive
C) Informational
D) Theme
What is informational or nonfiction writing?
C)
This is the part of the story when the suspense peaks and the problem is solved.
A) Turning Point
B) Resolution
C) Introduction
D) Adverb
What is the turning point?
This is at the end of an article and it lists the sources the author used to write the passage.
A) Text structure
B) Bibliography
C) Article Sources
D) Interjection
What is a bibliography?
B)
When this is added to the beginning of a root word, it makes a new word and changes the meaning of the word.
A) Prefix
B) Suffix
C) Prepositional Phrase
D) Onyx
What is a prefix?
A)
"The wind howled in the night," is an example of this.
A) Onomatopoeia
B) Personification
C) Idiom
D) Thesaurus
What is personification?
B)
"After we went outside, we ate lunch" is an example of this type of sentence.
A) Simple sentence
B) Complex sentence
C) Informational sentence
D) Traits
What is a complex sentence?
B)
This is the deeper meaning or the insight the story teaches about life.
A) Plot
B) Adage
C) Chapter
D) Theme
What is theme?
D)
The paragraph that usually reemphasizes and summarizes the main idea in an informational passage.
A) Introduction
B) Body
C) Conclusion
D) Name and Date
What is the last paragraph or conclusion?
C)
Words that sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings.
A) Draft
B) Proper Noun
C) Drama
D) Homophones
What are homophones?
D)
"I could hear the popping and crackling as mom dropped the bacon into the frying pan, and soon the salty, greasy smell wafted toward me." is an example of this.
A) Imagery
B) Hyperbole
C) Alliteration
D) Afix
What is imagery?
A)
"Because she broke her arm" is an example of this.
A) Fact
B) Simile
C) Fragment
D) Generalization
What is a fragment or a dependent clause?