FIGURATIVE LANG
NONFICTION
FICTION
POETRY
MYSTERY
100

Comparison between 2 things using line or as 

Simile

100

What the article is mostly about 

Central or main idea

100

Sequence of events of a story

Plot

100

A group of lines in a poem

Stanza

100

Extreme exaggeration 

Hyperbole

200

Comparison between 2things saying one thing is the other

Metaphor 

200

The way the author feels about the topic 

Tone

200

The way the reader feels

Mood

200

When a poem does not rhyme

Free verse

200

To move the story forward

Propel

300

When one thing represents something else 

Symbolism 

300

what you do with the title of an excerpt or article

Put in quotation marks

300

Where and when story takes place

Setting

300

The space between stanzas

Stanza break

300

When the opposite of what’s expected happens

Irony 

400

A reference to a famous person place or thing

Allusion 

400

The parts of a paragraph that help to develop the central idea 

Supporting details

400

What you do with the title of a novel

Underline or italicize 

400

When a line in a poem goes into the next line 

Enjambment

400

Giving human qualities to non human things

Personification

500

The Sneetches and The Lorax are examples of this

Allegory

500

Chronological and Compare/contrast are examples of this 

Text Structure

500

Universal truth

Theme

500

A poem in the form of a ketter

Epistolary 

500

A formal, often ceremonious lyric poem that addresses and often celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea.

Ode Poem

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