Vocabulary
Reading Comprehension
Literary Elements
Poetry and stuff...
Author's Craft
100
The base, or main part, of a word.
What is the root?
100
A personal judgment in favor of or against someone or something.
What is bias?
100
A type, or category, of literary work.
What is genre.
100
Words that mean something other than their literal meaning.
What is figurative language?
100
The author's attitude toward a subject.
What is tone?
200
The greek root that means measure.
What is meter?
200
Elements in a text that organize information and make it easier to understand.
What are text features?
200
What the characters say.
What is dialogue?
200
An exaggeration made to emphasize a point?
What is a hyperbole?
200
The use of descriptive words that appeal to the five senses and create a picture in the reader's mind.
What is imagery?
300
An affix ttached to the beginning of a root.
What is a prefix?
300
A diagram or table that may include columns, rows, and headings.
What is a chart?
300
A piece of fiction that tells a story and is usually less than ten thousand words.
What is a short story?
300
A phrase that combines two contradictory words.
What is an oxymoron?
300
When the present action in a story is paused to describe an earlier event.
What is a flashback?
400
A word that has more than one definition.
What is a multiple-meaning word?
400
A decision a reader makes after reading a text and putting all the clues together.
What is a conclusion?
400
The character who undergoes a significant change by the end of the story.
What is a dynamic character?
400
The repetition of beginning consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
400
The use of a concrete object to represent an abstract idea.
What is symbolism?
500
A word or phrase used in place of a term that might be considered unpleasant, harsh, or offensive.
What is a euphemism?
500
A word or phrase above a section of text that introduces the topic of that section.
What is a heading?
500
The point of view where the narrator is not a part of the story, and knows what only one character is thinking.
What is third-person limited omniscient?
500
When the rhyme is not exactly the same.
What is off rhyme?
500
What the following an example of? "There's nothing like getting eaten up by mosquitoes to make a camping trip worthwhile."
What is irony?
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