Oral Traditions
Figurative Language
Literary Elements
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100
Purpose of a Myth
What is explaining natural occurrences with a story.
100
The sun hung in the sky like a golden medallion
What is a simile
100
Last winter in a dark, gloomy castle in Scotland.....
What is setting?
100
Three types of folk tales
What is fairy tale, myth, and tall tale?
100
The way an author feels about the subject.
What is tone?
200
A story with magic and animals
What is a fairytale?
200
The beggar was a walking pig wallow.
What is metaphor?
200
A problem between two different characters in the story.
What is external conflict?
200
Stormed at with shot and shell.
What is alliteration.
200
The most exciting part of a story
What is the climax
300
A story that greatly exaggerates the truth.
What is a tall tale?
300
Fabrics swirled in a thousand baths of crimson, spreading through the sky
What is personification.
300
Good triumphs over evil
What is a common theme in folklore?
300
How the reader feels after a very sad book.
What is mood?
300
A story of a person's life written by that person
What is autobiography?
400
A modern story that may be true but cannot be verified.
What is an urban legend?
400
Out with a zoom, a whoop, a bark...he plops at your side with a mouthful of fish
What is onomonopeia?
400
The part of the story where everyone lives happily ever after.
What is the resolution?
400
The reason an author writes?
To inform, persuade, and entertain.
400
A story told by a narrator who is not a character in the story.
What is 3rd person point of view?
500
At the end of a fable?
What is the moral?
500
The part of the story that informs or gives background information about the characters.
What is the exposition?
500
The large, bolded print before a paragraph.
What is a heading?
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