Nonfiction
Fiction
Drama and Poetry
Grammar
Pot Pourri
100
to inform, persuade, or explain
What is the purpose of nonfiction texts?
100
to entertain
What is the purpose of fiction text?
100
Comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is s noun?
100
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What is the pause rule?
200
Restating facts, has a beginning, a middle, and an end, and does not include my opinion.
What is an objective summary?
200
The message the author wants you to take away from the story.
What is the theme?
200
Giving human-like qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
200
More than one of something.
What is a plural?
200
Comparing two unlike things not using "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
300
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
300
The two types of conflict in a story.
What is internal and external?
300
An extreme exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
300
This describes something or someone (nouns).
What is an adjective.
300
Information stated directly in the text.
What is explicit information?
400
The narrator is not in the text and is using "he" "she" they" when talking about people.
What is third person point of view?
400
The part of the story that the protagonist has a turning point, makes a big decision, has the epic battle, et cetera.
What is the climax?
400
A poem that doesn't rhyme.
What is free verse?
400
Describes how a verb is being done.
What is an adverb?
400
Making an educated guess about what is going on in the story based on context clues.
What is inferencing?
500
The opposite of a word is called this.
What is an antonym?
500
Another name for the denouement.
What is the resolution?
500
The way a poem is divided into segments like paragraphs.
What is a stanza?
500
Words that are similar are called this.
What is a synonym?
500
The way a word makes you feel or think.
What is connotation?
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