Figurative Language
Literary Terms
Story Things
Non-Fiction
100

A comparison of two things using like or as

What is a simlie 

100

A conversation between two people, using quotes. 

What is dialogue?

100

The events that happen in a story

What is plot?

100

The author's feeling, position, opinion or belief about the topic. 

What is the author's POV?

200

Two or more words if a groug of words with the same letter

What is alliteration?

200

An interruption to relate to an earlier event

What is flashback? 

200

The way a character behaves.

What are character traits?

200

The character recounts or retells his/her own experiences

What is 1st person? 

300

A comparison that does NOT use like or as

What is a metaphor?

300

Hinting about something that has not happened yet

What is foreshadowing?

300

The moral or lesson of a story

What is the theme? 

300

The author's position on a topic

What is an argument?

400

Words taken from sounds they make

What is onomatopoeia?

400

Problem that must be resolved 

What is a conflict? 

400

How the details in a story make the reader feel.

What is mood?

400

A statement that you say is true

What is the claim?

500

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.

What is personification?

500

Where and when a story takes place

What is setting?

500

The person telling the story

What is the narrator

500

What is the author's purpose

What is Persuade 

Inform 

Entertain

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