Purposeful Writing
Periods of Literature
Figurative Language
Literary Terms
Famous Authors
100
You interview someone to record a recollection of a special event or time in their life.
What is a biographical narrative?
100
This writer of the Elizabethan era in the Renaissance time period (1559-1603) coined the oft-quoted phrase “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
Who is William Shakespeare?
100
A series of interconnected events in which every occurrence has a specific purpose – establishing connections, suggesting causes, and showing relationships.
What is plot?
100
The repetition of a beginning consonant sound within a phrase or sentence.
What is consonance?
100
He is a present-day author born in Afghanistan, and is a novelist and a physician now a citizen of the United States where he has lived since 15 years old. He wrote Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, And The Mountains Echoed.
Who is Khaled Hosseini?
200
You write an article about someone or some current event in order to go deeper into a subject than a news article would, to add insight and/or background information.
What is a feature story?
200
Paradise Lost was written by this English poet in the Commonwealth Period or Puritan Interregnum (1649-1660)..
Who is John Milton?
200
The all-knowing narrator is not a character in the story, but knows everything about the story and can show the thoughts and experiences of any character in the story.
What is an omniscient narrator?
200
Attributing human characteristics to inanimate objects, natural forces, or animals.
What is personification?
200
This famous French writer wrote the short story “Two Friends.”
Who is Guy de Maupassant?
300
You write a reflection of a significant occurrence or event in your life. The book Night (Elie Wiesel) is an example.
What is a memoir?
300
This author of the Victorian period (1830-1866) wrote thousands of poems, many of which were dark. She was born in Amherst, Massachusetts
Who is Emily Dickinson?
300
This narrator uses “I” to refer to himself/herself: this is often, but not necessarily, a character of the story and may be the protagonist. This point of view allows for a very personal touch in the story-telling.
What is an internal or first-person narrator?
300
This combines two words of contrasting meanings to convey a single idea or thought.
What is oxymoron?
300
This New England Poet wrote that good walls make good neighbors in “The Mending Wall,” and “Stopping by a Farm on a Snowy Eve” as well as “The Road Not Taken.”
Who is Robert Frost?
400
You respond to a local, national, or a global issue in the news which is of concern to you. You write persuasively.
What is an editorial or persuasive essay?
400
This modern period author wrote “Animal Farm” and “1984.”
Who is George Orwell?
400
Uses exaggeration to provide strong emotion, to create humor, or to make a point.
What is hyperbole?
400
A polite word or phrase used in place of an offensive or crude word or phrase.
What is euphemism?
400
This author of the Victorian period was a naturalist. He was the son of a preacher who wrote The Red Badge of Courage.
Who is Stephen Crane?
500
You recap a game interview a sports figure, research and write about a famous player or coach, or comment on a current issue or development in the world of sports.
What is a sports story?
500
This author wrote “To Kill a Mockingbird” and assisted her friend Truman Capote writing “In Cold Blood.”
Who is Harper Lee?
500
The protagonist against another; the protagonist against society, the protagonist against nature, the protagonist against self all are examples of this literary element.
What is conflict?
500
Builds suspense or anxiety in the reader or viewer.
What is foreshadowing?
500
He wrote The Illiad and The Odyssey in the Classical Heroic Period.
Who is Homer?
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