Story Structure
Genre Grab Bag
Vocabulary Know-How
Fishing for Figurative Language
Advanced Lit Terms
100
a person, animal, or thing represented in a story
What is a character?
100
general term to describe a story that is from the author's imagination
What is fiction?
100
when words have an opposite meaning, we call them this
What are antonyms?
100
giving something that is not human human-like qualities
What is personification?
100
the message an author wants to communicate through a story
What is the theme?
200
the series of events in the story
What is the plot?
200
a written work that is based on fact
What is nonfiction?
200
when words have a similar meaning, we call them this
What are synonyms?
200
comparing two things using like or as
What is a simile?
200
the overall feeling you get from a piece of writing
What is mood?
300
where and when a story takes place
What is the setting?
300
this is what we call a story written about someone's life when it is written by someone other than that person
What is biography?
300
a book-length story
What is a novel?
300
the use of sensory words to paint a picture in the reader's mind
What is imagery?
300
the author's attitude toward the subject about which he or she is writing
What is tone?
400
the "voice" that speaks or tells the story
What is the narrator?
400
this is what we call an author's story about his or her own life
What is autobiography?
400
writing that is imaginative and colorful; it has a rhythmic pattern and sometimes rhymes
What is poetry?
400
exaggeration or overstatement
What is hyperbole?
400
revealing a character through descriptions, actions, and dialogue
What is characterization?
500
major struggle between characters or opposing forces
What is conflict?
500
a story that is made up in order to explain a belief, usually having to do with nature, life or religion
What is a myth?
500
writing that is not rhythmic or poetic; typically seen in novels, short stories and informational pieces
What is prose?
500
word, place, character, or object that means something beyond the literal level; something that stands for or represents something else
What is a symbol?
500
the perspective from which the author chooses to tell the story
What is point of view?
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