Fiction
The most exciting part of the story or the "peak" of Plot Mountain.
What is the Climax?
Comparing two things using “like” or “as.”
What is a Simile?
The usual number of sentences found in a well-rounded paragraph.
What is 5 sentences?
Descriptive language that calls upon the sense of sight.
What is Visual Imagery?
What is the state capital of Ohio?
What is Columbus?
The "main idea" of a story.
What is Theme?
Giving human characteristics to something non-human.
What is Personification?
DWJ stands for this.
What is Daily Writing Journal?
Poetry is very similar to this type of media.
What is Song?
What year did the Cleveland Cavaliers win the NBA Championship?
What is 2016?
The end of the story where all loose ends are tied up.
What is the Resolution?
Presents an overstatement or exaggeration for emphasis.
What is a Hyperbole?
A story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel.
What is a Short Story?
Descriptive language that calls upon the sense of hearing.
What is Auditory Imagery?
If you take a stroll along W 11th Street in Cleveland, you’ll find yourself standing in front of Ralphie Parker’s family home. What celebrated festive movie was the house featured in?
What is A Christmas Story?
Another name for the main character of a story.
What is Protagonist?
Presents repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other.
What is an Alliteration?
A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables that traditionally evokes images of the natural world.
What is a Haiku?
A type of communication or language that does not use a word's strict or realistic meaning. Common in comparisons and exaggerations.
What is Figurative Language?
What county is Cleveland in?
What is Cuyahoga?
The beginning of a story where characters and setting are determined.
What is Exposition?
A reference to some person, event, work of art, or biblical/mythological situation or character.
What is an Allusion?
The organized pattern or sequence of events that make up a story.
What is Plot?
The number of syllables found in the second line of a haiku.
What is 7 syllables?
What Hall of Fame calls Cleveland home?
What is The Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame?