Main Idea and Cause and Effect
Conflict
Miscellaneous
Plot
Figurative Language
100

The cause in this sentence: Because of the new parking law on campus, my car was towed!

What is a new parking law?

100

Holly is being bullied at school by Anna.

What is person vs. person?

100
A genre in nonfiction which is a story of one's own life.
What is autobiography.
100
The highest point of interest, the place where ideas are drawn together, an important turning point in a series of actions, or the most forceful event in a story.
What is climax.
100
The comparison between two unlike things using the words like or as.
What is simile?
200
Why something happens.
What is the cause?
200

A struggle between two opposing forces.

What is conflict?

200

A prefix that means under or below.

What is sub.

200
Concludes the action and ensures that all important plot lines have been tied.
What is resolution.
200
The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
What is onomatopoeia?
300

The central point of a text; what the text is mostly about.

What is main idea?

300

John is afraid of flying in a plane, but it is his only choice if he wants to see his grandfather before he passes away.

What is person vs. self?

300
Books that are about real things, people, events, and places.
What is nonfiction.
300
The beginning of the story, where the characters and setting are introduced.
What is exposition.
300
Extremely descriptive language. Uses one or more of the five senses.
What is imagery?
400

The effect in this sentence: The wasteful energy use of many Americans has contributed to global warming.

What is global warming.

400

Jack must survive a cold winter in the wilderness.

What is person vs. nature?

400

The character in a work that acts against the main character. The "bad guy."

What is antagonist?

400
Events in a story that build up the conflict.
What are rising action events?
400
The tree branches danced wildly in the summer thunderstorm.
What is personification?
500

The central message in a literary work. Similar to the moral of a story, and is sometimes what the main character or audience learns from reading the literary work.

What is theme?

500

Jamie is opposed to the arranged marriage with Seth that her parents have set up because she wants to study medicine instead.

What is person vs. society?

500

A root that means to write.

What is graph?

500
Events that lead up to the resolution of a story.
What are falling action events.
500
Her eyes were fireflies, twinkling in the soft moonlight.
What is metaphor?
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