Place together characters, situations or ideas to show common features in literary selections
What is compare
100
Writing that aims to present ideas and evoke an emotional experience in the reader. May involve rhythm or rhyme.
What is poetry
100
A story, description or account of events
What is a narrative or novel
100
a life story written by the person who lived it
What is autobiography
100
story of a person's life written by another person
What is biography
200
an exaggeration or overstatement
What is hyperbole
200
the main character in a literary work
What is protagonist
200
the structures of a story and the sequences in which an author arranges events in a story including conflict, rising action, the climax, falling action, and the resolution
What is plot
200
the authors's method of organizing text (foreshadowing, flashback).
What are literary structures or author's craft or literature devices.
200
Writing that is not fictional; Design to explain, argue, instruct, or describe rather than entertain: emphasis is factual
What is nonfiction
300
a fairy-tale type story coming from spoken traditions
What is folktales
300
Stories that a culture may tell to explain nature, history, and customs.
What is mythology
300
The central message in a story or a lesson.
What is theme
300
Highly imaginative writing that contains elements not found in real life
What is fantasy
300
Writing that is used to convince someone of something.
What is persuasive or Argumentative?
400
narrative perspective from which literary work is presented to the reader from a "godlike" perspective
What is omniscient or 3rd person.
400
A book that lists words in groups of synonyms and related concepts. Like a dictionary or encyclopedia.
What is a thesaurus
400
A fictitious narrative of book length, typically representing character and action.
What is a novel
400
Restate the text or passage, often to clarify meaning or show understanding
What is paraphrase
400
The way in which an author reveals characters, events and ideas in telling a story.
What is point of view?
500
Words pronounced alike, but different spelling or meaning
What is homophones or homonyms
500
Making a logical assumption
What is inferences
500
A short story with a moral.
What is a fable
500
A word having a meaning opposite of that of another word
What is an antonym
500
A talk between two or more people in a play, novel, or film.