Fiction
Non-Fiction
Figurative Language
Literary Terms
Genres
100

The character that goes against the protagonist.

Who is an antagonist?

100

Bedbugs are one of the worst household pests. This is an example of fact or opinion.

What is opinion?

100

These are words that imitate the sound they represent.

What is an onomatopoeia?

100

This is the moral of the story.

What is theme?

100

Jackie Robinson writes a book about his own life. 

What is an autobiography/ memoir?

200

The hero/main character in a work of literature.

What is a protagonist?

200

Etiwanda Intermediate School is located in Rancho Cucamonga, California. Is this an example of fact or opinion?

What is fact?

200

The crook was as sly as a fox.

What type of figurative language is this?

What is a simile?

200

This is considered the turning point of the story/the most exciting part of the story.

What is the climax?

200

This genre normally has a crime to solve.

What is a mystery?

300

This is the problem in plot development.

What is conflict?

300

A nonfiction article gives facts about recycling and encourages readers to recycle more.
What is the author’s purpose?

What is to inform and persuade?

300

My computer screamed before it died a brutal death.

What type of figurative language is this?

What is personification?

300

This is a paragraph in a poem.

What is a stanza?

300

A story that deals with aliens and outer space.

What is science fiction?

400

This tells you the setting and the main characters that are introduced at the beginning of the story.

What is the exposition?

400

These types of words have opposite meanings.


What are antonyms?

400

“Time stalked him, patient and unforgiving,” 

What type of figurative language is this?


What is a metaphor?

400

Which term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts of only one character? (A type of point of view)

What is the third-person limited point of view? 

400

A story about a boy and his pet unicorn.

What is fantasy?

500

This is the final part of the novel- the ending of the story.

What is the resolution?

500

There are five types of informational text structures. Name them.


What are problem/solution, cause & effect, description, compare & contrast, and sequence?


500

Homework clung to him like a shadow he couldn’t escape.


Which TWO types of figurative language are in this sentence?

What is a simile and personification?

500

These are the three authors' purposes.

What is to inform, to entertain, to persuade?

500

This is a story about World War 1, but it has made-up characters that were not real.

What is historical fiction?

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