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 message or moral of the story. 

What is theme?

100

What does the bee do? Bring home honey. And what does Father do? Bring home money. And what does Mother do? Lay out the money. And what does baby do? Eat up the honey.

What is poetry?

200

The hero/main character in a work of literature.

What is a protagonist?

200

Ligon Middle School is located in Raleigh, North Carolina. This is an example of fact or opinion.

What is fact?

200

An extreme exaggeration.

What is hyperbole. 

200

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

What is the climax?

200

This genre normal has a crime to solve.

What is a mystery?

300

This is the problem in plot development.

What is conflict?

300

These are the two types of essays you will see on the OST.

Argumentative and Informational

300

My computer screamed before it died a brutal death.

What is personification?

300

This is a paragraph in a poem.

What is a stanza?

300

A story the deals with alien cloning.

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

Name two strategies that can be used on your OST to help you. 

What is crossing out incorrect answers, highlighting, mark for review tool, etc.

400

This type of FL uses like or as. Name this and give an example. 

What is a similie

400

Point of view that uses her, he, she they. 

3rd person POV

400

A story about a girl and her pet unicorn.

What is fantasy?

500

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

What is the resolution?

500

These words have opposite meanings.

What are antonyms?

500

My niece Laurel is a ray sunshine.

What is a metaphor?

500

These are the three author's purposes.

What is to inform, to entertain, and to persuade.

500

When you are reading a story of any genre, this would be considered "what the story is mostly about". 

What is central/main idea?

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