Literary terms #1
An important part of song lyrics, this literary term means when the end of two words sounds the same.
What is rhyme?
This genre of story is acted out on stage. William Shakespeare wrote these.
What is drama?
This is a shorter version of the main idea.
What is a gist?
This word means how the story feels.
What is a mood?
Tony Stark goes by this name while fighting alongside the other Avengers.
Who is Iron Man?
This word means a comparison that uses "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
This genre of story is passed down through generations through word-of-mouth storytelling, usually to teach a lesson.
What is a fable?
This category of story takes place in space or has robots and cyborgs and aliens etc in it.
What is science fiction?
This is the opposite of a protagonist; someone trying to stop the main character.
What is an antagonist?
The "N.B.A." in NBA Youngboy stands for this.
What is Never Broke Again?
This word means when you talk about something like it's a person: "my computer won't cooperate with me."
What is personification?
This word means a made-up story that feels like real life.
What is realistic fiction?
This is the part of a story where a character remembers something from the past.
This type of word sounds like the sound it makes, for example, "crash," "splash" etc.
What is onomatopoeia?
This social media app, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, is the most popular in the world.
What is an inference?
This is another word for main character.
What is a protagonist?
What it's called when a story is narrated by the main character: "I went to the store and saw my friend" etc.
This word means an exaggeration: "I had to grade a million billion papers today"
What is hyperbole?
This fictional protagonist is the son of Poseidon.
Who is Percy Jackson?
These two things make up an inference.
What are background knowledge and information from the text?
This word means a comparison that does NOT use "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
This term means when a story is narrated by a narrator talking about the various characters: "He went to the store and saw his friend"
What is 3rd person?
This is a type of writing where everything really happened.
What is non-fiction?
This fictional protagonist goes to Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardy.
Who is Harry Potter?