What do you call a struggle between two opposing forces...
What is conflict.
100
What do you call a short statement about the most important idea in a story or paragraph written in your own words...
What is a summary.
100
The highest point of interest, the turning point of the action, or the most dramatic event in a story...
What is climax.
100
Comparing two things using the words "like" or "as"...
What is a simile.
200
The type of literature intended to be performed and acted out...
What is drama.
200
What type of conflict is this: Rosie is being bullied at school by Emma...
What is man vs. man.
200
What are you doing when you use what you already know as well as text evidence from a story to come up with an educated answer...
What is inferring.
200
Concludes the action and ensures that everything is wrapped up...
What is resolution.
200
Words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to...
What is onomatopoeia.
300
The conversation between characters in a story or play...
What is dialogue.
300
What type of conflict is this: John is afraid of flying in a plane, but it's his only choice if he wants to see his grandfather before he passes away...
What is man vs. himself.
300
Books that are about real things, people, events, and places...
What is non-fiction.
300
The beginning of the story, where the characters and setting are introduced...
What is exposition.
300
An extreme exaggeration...
What is hyperbole.
400
This information helps to support the topic of a paper or paragraph...
What are details.
400
What type of conflict is this: Jack must survive a cold winter in the wilderness...
What is man vs. nature.
400
The pattern of rhyming lines in poetry...
What is rhyme scheme.
400
The events in a story that build on each other and add suspense...
What is rising action.
400
A phrase that means something other than its literal meaning... For example: It's raining cats and dogs.
What is an idiom.
500
The dictionary definition of a word...
What is denotation.
500
What type of conflict is this: Jamie is opposed to the treatment of African-Americans in her town...
What is man vs. society.
500
The perspective, or eyes, from which a story is told...
What is point of view.
500
The events just before the resolution of a story...
What is falling action.
500
Giving an object or an animal human characteristics...