Parts of Speech
This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
The person or thing that tells the story.
What is the narrator?
A fictional story that could actually happen in real life.
What is realistic fiction?
A group of lines in a poem is called this, similar to a paragraph in prose.
What is a stanza?
Language that appeals to the senses and creates a picture in your mind.
What is imagery?
This word used in place of a noun includes 'he,' 'she,' and 'it.'
What is a pronoun?
The time and place where a story happens.
What is the setting?
A true story of a person's life written by someone else.
What is a biography?
This is a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
What is rhythm?
Two or more words in a group that have the same beginning consonant sound.
What is alliteration?
This part of speech describes a noun or pronoun, telling what kind, how many, or which one.
What is an adjective?
The main message, concern, or purpose in a piece of writing.
What is the theme?
A type of story that includes elements like magic, talking animals, and mythical beings
What is fantasy?
The repetition of the same sound at the end of lines in a poem.
What is rhyme?
A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared by saying one is the other.
What is a metaphor?
This part of speech shows action or a state of being.
What is a verb?
An educated guess about what will happen next in a story
A fictional story that usually involves solving a crime or uncovering secrets.
What is a mystery?
When a word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis or unity.
What is repetition?
Giving human traits to non-human things.
What is personification?
This part of speech modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb and answers how, when, where, or to what extent.
What is an adverb?
To explain how things are different is to do this.
What is contrast?
A story, typically for children, involving imaginary creatures and magical events.
What is a fairy tale?
A comparison using 'like' or 'as'.
What is a simile?
A hint about what will happen later in a story.
What is foreshadowing?