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.

Word Bank: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Onomatopoeia, idiome. 

What is an onomatopoeia?

100

This is the moral of the story.

Word Bank: Theme, Mood, Style, Plot and Tone.

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. 

Word Bank: Mystery, Science Fiction, Poetry, Fantasy, and Historical Fiction. 

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

The crook was as sly as a fox.

Word Bank: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Onomatopoeia, idiome.

What is simile?

200

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

Word Bank: Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution or conflict. 


What is the climax?

200

This genre normally has a crime to solve.

Word Bank: Mystery, Science Fiction, Poetry, Fantasy, and Historical Fiction.

What is a mystery?

300

This is the problem in plot development.

Word Bank: Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution or conflict. 

What is conflict?

300

These help you to read a piece of informational text. They can be captions, sidebars, bold words, etc.

Word Bank: Text Features, Closed Captions, and Subtitles. 

What are text features?

300

My computer screamed before it died a brutal death.

Word Bank: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Onomatopoeia, idiome.

What is personification?

300

This is a paragraph in a poem.


Stanza, Act, or Scene. 

What is a stanza?

300

A story the deals with alien cloning.

Word Bank: Mystery, Science Fiction, Poetry, Fantasy, and Historical Fiction.

What is science fiction?

400

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

Word Bank: Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution.

What is the exposition?

400

There are five types of text structures. Which one is not a text structure? (Problem/solution, cause & effect, description, compare & contrast, sequence and point of view.)

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

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.

Word Bank: Mystery, Science Fiction, Poetry, Fantasy, and Historical Fiction.

What is fantasy?

500

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

Word Bank: Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution.

What is the resolution?

500

These words have opposite meanings.

Synonyms or Antonyms 

What are antonyms?

500

My niece Laurel is a ray sunshine.

Word Bank: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Onomatopoeia, idiome.

What is a metaphor?

500

These are the five author's purposes.

Which is not an author's purpose: To inform, To discuss, To entertain, To persuade, To describe, and To Explain?

To Discuss 

500

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

Word Bank: Mystery, Science Fiction, Poetry, Fantasy, and Historical Fiction.

What is historical fiction?

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