The character or force in conflict with a main character
What is antagonist?
100
Grouped lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
100
A statement that cannot be proven true or false; a person's thoughts or beliefs.
What is opinion?
100
Identify the type of figurative language:
"John's answer to the problem was just a Band-Aid, not a solution."
What is a metaphor?
200
The abbreviation for author's purpose and what each letter stands for
What is PIE, to persuade, inform, or entertain?
200
The overall, worldly lesson that can be learned from the story; a repeated idea or lesson in a literary text and often deals with abstract questions, beliefs, or truths
What is theme?
200
The repetition of the beginning sound of a word.
What is alliteration?
200
A statement that can be proven true or false when research is done (two words)
What is a factual claim?
200
Identify the type of figurative language:
"Micaela and I are going to hang out and shoot the breeze before the movie since we arrived early to the theater."
What is an idiom?
300
A word, phrase, or sentence in the text around an unfamiliar word that helps you identify the word's meaning.
What are context clues?
300
Written conversation between two or more characters and identifiable by quotation marks
What is dialogue?
300
Words used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true
What is figurative language?
300
A statement that is generally accepted to be true by MOST people (two words)
What is a commonplace assertion?
300
Identify the figurative language:
"The thunder clapped angrily in the distance."
What is personification?
400
To use details in the passage and what you already know about the topic to make an educated guess about an unstated idea; in other words, to read between the lines of the text.
What is to infer (inference)?
400
The ending of a story, when the conflict is resolved.
What is resolution?
400
The literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions.
What is mood?
400
Name at least four examples of expository text.
What are Textbooks, News Articles/Newspapers, Instruction Manuals, Recipes, City or Country Guides, Language Books, Self-help Books, Encyclopedias, Scientific Books/Journals, Atlases, Biographies?
400
Identify the figurative language:
"Her hair was as soft as a spider web."
What is a simile?
500
A reflection of a writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject of a poem, story, or other literary work
What is tone?
500
Describe/label the elements of a plot diagram in order. Identify/describe at least one part of Cinderella using the proper terms and elements of the plot diagram and story.
What is exposition (Cinderella is unhappily living with her stepmother and stepsisters and made to do all the work.), rising action (All the girls are invited to a ball by the Prince, and Cinderella is able to attend with the help of her fairy godmother only until midnight.), climax (Cinderella loses one shoe.), falling action (The prince's men try the shoe on everyone in the kingdom, and it fits Cinderella.), and resolution (Cinderella and the prince live happily ever after.)
500
Identify the figurative language (and the line where it is used) in the poem below.
The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur.
Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it
learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams,
it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else ever cared.
What is personification?
Proving nature's law is wrong it
learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams,
it learned to breathe fresh air.
500
What is the difference between an autobiography and a biography?
What is an autobiography is a true story of a person's life written or told by that person and a biography is a true story of a person's life written or told by someone else?
500
Identify the figurative language:
"Alice's aunt ate apples and acorns around August."