Fiction & Nonfiction
Short Stories
Types of Nonfiction
Figurative Language & Poetry
This and That
100

Works of fiction often include a ______, or a message, about life.

What is a theme?

100
In ______ characterization, the writer describes the character.
What is direct characterization?
100
A ____ is the life story of someone that is written by another person.
What is a biography?
100
This describes one thing as if it were something else. For example: The house was a zoo this morning!
What is a metaphor?
100

This is what every good essay has in the introduction to give focus to the writing.

What is a thesis statement?

200
Fiction is told for a certain perspective, or _____ of _____.
What is point of view?
200
In _____ characterization, the writer reveals the character through speech and actions.
What is indirect characterization?
200

This describes the way that the information is presented within a text.

What is text structure?

200
This gives human qualities to something that is not human. For example: The cars growled in the traffic.
What is personification?
200

This is the acronym used when writing short constructed responses.

What is RACE?

300
This point of view is told from the perspective of a character in the story.
What is first person?
300
This is the use of clues early in a story to hint at events that are going to occur later.
What is foreshadowing?
300

This type of writing presents facts, discusses ideas, or explains a process.

What is informational writing?

300
This uses LIKE or AS to compare two unlike things. For example: He stormed into the meeting like a tornado.
What is a simile?
300

This is a significantly shortened version of source material that captures main ideas in your own words



What is an objective summary?

400
This point of view is told from a perspective of a narrator outside the story.
What is 3rd person?
400

This is a placement of a scene within a story that interrupts the sequence of events to reveal past occurrences.

What is a flashback?

400

This type of writing is meant to convince the reader to adopt a particular point of view or to take a particular course of action.

What is persuasive writing?

400

This type of poem has three lines. The first and third line have 5 syllables and the second line has 7.

What is a haiku?

400

This is a strategy to help you unpack writing prompts. 

What is an TAPP?

500
Fictional works include made-up people or animals, called characters, and a made-up series of events, called the ____.
What is plot?
500
This is the story's conclusion.
What is the resolution?
500
This type of writing presents details in time order, from first to last- or sometimes last to first.
What is chronological order?
500

The main argument, position or assertion that a writer is making.

What is a claim?

500
This is the repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words. For example: Slippery slope
What is an alliteration?
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