Fiction
Non-Fiction
Figurative Language
Literary Terms
Books and Authors
100

The use of clues to suggest events that will happen later in the story.

What is foreshadowing?

100

The story of one's life, written by someone else

What is biography?

100

My mum almost blasted off like a rocket.

What is simile?

100

Two people speaking back and forth. It involved quotes.

What is dialogue?

100

A book partially set in Iraq.

What is Somebody Please Tell Me Who I Am?

200

A type of literature set in a seemingly "perfect" society, where technology or government creates problems

What is dystopia?

200

a story of someone's life, written by that same person

What is autobiography?

200

The crook was as sly as fox.

What is simile?

200

When a character sees something from their perspective.

What is point of view?

200

A book by Lois Lowry that focuses on a lack of choice.

What is The Giver?

300

The problem in a work of fiction (human vs human, for example)

What is conflict?

300

the order in which events happen in time

What is a chronological order?

300

My computer hates me.

What is personification?

300

type of conflict that involves racism or trying to go against laws

What is human vs society?

300

The two aspects of society that usually have too much control in dystopian fiction.

What are government and technology?

400

The story takes place in North Carolina in the 1980's. This description is an example of...

What is setting?

400

the resource in the back of a book that defines words

What is glossary?

400

Opals are stars, hidden underground because of their beauty.

What is a metaphor?

400

The sudden moment when memories come back to a character.

What is flashback?

400

A short story in which the protagonist tries to defeat the government but is killed by the United States Handicapper General.

What is "Harrison Bergeron"?

500

The part in a story when the main character makes a decision or discovery that changes the course of the book

What is climax?

500

an author's reason for creating a particular work: teach, entertain, express an opinion, persuade, inform

What is author's purpose?

500

When the blanket everybody calls night was tucked in all snugly over Lightning Ridge...

What is metaphor?

500
The character who gets in the way of the protagonist achieving his or her goals

What is antagonist?

500

An author famous for his dystopian stories, including "All Summer in a Day" and "The Veldt"

Who is Ray Bradbury?

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