Informational Text and Argumentative Writing
Fiction and Narrative Writing
Research
Poetry
Literary Devices and Figures of Speech
100

The person reached by a book, radio, television broadcast, etc. 

What is Audience

100

Feeling(s) evoked in the reader as a reaction to the narrative's atmosphere

What is Mood

100

To provide a brief statement of the main points

What is Summarize

100

A basic structural component of a poem

What is Line

100

A short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person

What is Anecdote

200

An appeal to ethics and credibility

What is Ethos

200

A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; An Adversary

What is Antagonist

200

To study (something) closely and carefully

What is Analyze

200

Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme

What is Verse

200

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

What is Metaphor

300

An appeal to logic and reason

What is Logos

300

The point in a narrative at which the conflict or tension hits the highest point

What is Climax

300
Not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts

What is Objective

300

A humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming (aabba)

What is Limerick

300

The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristic to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form

What is Personification

400

An appeal to emotions

What is Pathos
400

The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text

What is Protagonist

400

Based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions

What is Subjective

400

The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words

What is Alliteration

400

A figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things using the words like or as

What is Simile

500

A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning

What is Inference

500

The part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved

What is Falling action

500

Uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language

What is Ambiguity

500

The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

What is Onomatopoeia

500

The attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object

What is Anthropomorphism

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