Storytime
What it is
For Example
Poetry
Figuratively Speaking
100

The turning point or hight point of a story.

What is the "climax?"

100

This is what it is called when the author interupts the story to go pack to a earlier time. 

What is a flashback?

100

"All the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players." 

What is a metaphor?

100

A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables creating rhythm. 

What is meter? 

100

Words for sounds

What is onomatopoeia? 

200

The part of the story where the conflict is solved. 

What is the resolution? 

200

When an object, design, or even person represent a bigger idea. 

What is symbolism? 

200
"He could kill twenty sea monsters with one swipe of his sword." 

What is hyperbole?

200

The word for a "poem paragraph." 

What is "stanza?"

200

Repetition of the same constant sound

What is alliteration? 

300

The events of a story put together in the order chosen by the author. 

What is the plot? 

300

Adding description to writing using the five senses

What is imagery? 

300

"Thine eyes are like the sun..."

Simile

300

Type of poem that has no rhyming pattern? 

What is free-verse?

300

Extreme exageration

What is hyperbole?

400
The main character of the story. 

What is the protagonist? 

400

Uses "like" or "as" to compare two things.

What is a simile?

400
"A pile of kittens is called a meow-tain." (mountain)

What is a pun? 

400

This poet wrote "The Raven."

Who was Edgar Allan Poe? 

400

Saying something opposite of what is expected

What is irony? 

500

How, where, and when a story takes place. 

What is the setting?

500

Giving human characteristics to a non-human thing. 

What is personification?

500

"They went looking for Mr. Death, found him, and they died." 

What is irony?

500

An event where individuals or groups recite poetry for an audience as a type of performance. 

What is a poetry slam?

500

Final Jepordy:

Name all three books we read this year

Elephant

Robot

Green Ember

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