A quality in a person that can't be seen (e.g. loyalty, honesty, laziness).
What are character traits?
100
A truth the story reveals about people and life. The message the reader takes away. A story can have more than one and each person's can be different. (e.g. Home is where the heart is.)
What is the theme?
100
Language which directly compares two very different things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
100
A writer's account of his or her own life. It's written in first person point-of-view.
What is an autobiography?
100
An educated guess based on whatever evidence one has.
What is an inference?
200
A struggle or clash between opposing characters or opposing forces.
What is conflict?
200
The topic the author has chosen to write about. It's usually expressed in one or two words (e.g. love, family values, friendship)
What is the subject?
200
Writing which repeats the initial consonant sound (e.g. My sister Sally sells seashells by the seashore).
What is alliteration?
200
The story of a person's life written by another person. It's written in third person.
What is a biography?
200
A short work of fiction with a few character who move through a series of events and work through a conflict, which leads to a climax and a resolution.
What is a short story?
300
A series of events that take place to make it hard for characters to get what they want.
What are complications?
300
A series of events that make it hard for the character to get what he or she wants.
What is a complication?
300
Writing which compares two different things using like, as, as if resembles or seems.
What is a simile?
300
Prose which is made up rather than true.
What is fiction?
300
A story that is between a short story and a novel in length.
What is a novella?
400
The most exciting part of the story right before the resolution of the story.
What is the climax?
400
Ordinary language people use in speaking or writing. It is without rhyme or meter.
What is prose?
400
Writing which gives human or living characteristics to something that is not human or not alive.
What is personification?
400
A broad, general conclusion drawn from several examples or pieces of evidence.
What is a generalization?
400
Themes that relate to the human condition.
What are universal themes?
500
All the ways things are alike and all the ways things are different.
What is compare and contrast?
500
A message or lesson learned from a story that cannot be fully understood until the story's end.
What is a moral?
500
Words, phrases or expressions that have a meaning different from the meaning of the individual words themselves. (e.g. Cat got your tongue?)
What is an idiom?
500
Prose that relates facts about real people, places, things and events.
What is non-fiction
500
A person, place, thing or eent that has its own meaning AND stands for something beyond itself.