Fiction Terms
This is the time and place where a story occurs.
Setting
This type of nonfiction writing tells the story of a person’s life, written by someone else.
🟩 What is a biography?
The repetition of similar sounds at the ends of words, often at the end of lines.
🟩 What is rhyme?
This fallacy attacks a person’s character instead of addressing their argument.
🟩 What is ad hominem?
This movie features toys that come to life when humans aren’t around, including Woody and Buzz Lightyear.
Toy Story
The main character in a story, often the one who faces the conflict.
Protagonist
A commercial shows a doctor recommending a brand of medicine to prove it’s trustworthy.
🟩 What is ethos?
A group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose.
🟩 What is a stanza?
This fallacy tries to force someone to choose between only two options when more exist.
🟩 What is a false dilemma (either/or)?
This branch of math deals with shapes, sizes, angles, and the properties of space.
geometry
This type of conflict happens when a character struggles against an outside force, like nature or another person.
🟩 What is external conflict?
A public service ad lists statistics about how many lives are saved by wearing seatbelts.
🟩 What is logos?
A comparison using “like” or “as.”
🟩 What is a simile?
This fallacy uses the popularity of an idea as evidence that it is true.
🟩 What is bandwagon (appeal to popularity)?
In science, this organ in the human body pumps blood throughout the circulatory system.
🟩 What is the heart?
This is the central message or insight about life that a story reveals.
🟩 What is the theme?
An animal shelter ad shows a sad, lonely puppy to make viewers feel compassion and want to adopt.
🟩 What is pathos?
The feeling or atmosphere a poem creates for the reader.
🟩 What is mood?
During a debate about school lunches, a student responds, “Why are we even talking about food when the school library needs more books?”
Red herring
This K-pop group, known for hits like “Dynamite” and “Butter,” has seven members.
🟩 Who is BTS?
This literary device gives clues or hints about events that will happen later in the story.
🟩 What is foreshadowing?
When an author shows personal feelings, opinions, or beliefs instead of just facts, it’s called this.
🟩 What is bias?
The feeling or atmosphere a poet creates for the reader.
This fallacy misrepresents an opponent’s argument to make it easier to attack.
Straw man
In the hit TV show “Stranger Things,” these kids face supernatural creatures in the town of Hawkins.
🟩 Who are Eleven, Mike, Dustin, and Lucas (or “the kids”)?