Fiction & Nonfiction
Plot Diagram
Figurative Language
Literary Terms
Genres
100

The character that goes against the protagonist. (usually the "bad guy")

Who is an antagonist?

100

The turning point in the story - usually the most exciting part. 

What is climax?

100

These are words that imitate the sound they represent.

What is an onomatopoeia?

100

This is the attitude that is portrayed in an author's story.

What is tone?

100

Roses are red. Violets are blue. Sugar is sweet...and so are you. 

What is poetry?

200

The hero/main character in a work of literature.

What is a protagonist?

200

This happens right after the climax of the story, but before the very end. 

What is falling action?

200

The crook was as sly as a fox.

What is simile?

200

This is the problem of a story.

What is the conflict?

200

This genre tells about the life of someone.

What is a biography?

300

This are the 3 reasons an author might publish a book or article.

What is to persuade, inform, or entertain?

300

This is the part of the story where we learn of the conflict and most events take place.

What is rising action?

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 that might deal with alien cloning.

What is science fiction?

400

When you use details from the text to support your answer in a written response, you are using this. 

What is text evidence?

400

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

What is the exposition?

400

Choose the best answer. Which of the following is an inanimate object that can be personified? A. a star B. the dog C. Suzy D. Basketball team

What is A?

400

The four types of conflict.

What are man vs. man, man vs. self, man vs. nature, and man vs. society ?

400

A story about a girl and her pet unicorn.

What is fantasy?

500

This is the time and place where the story happens.

What is the setting?

500

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

What is resolution?

500

My niece Laurel is a ray of sunshine.

What is a metaphor?

500
An author uses this when they relate to one of your five senses to help you better visualize a story. 

What is imagery?

500

This is a story about the Holocaust but it has made-up characters that were not real.

What is historical fiction?

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