Point of View
Prose and Poetry
Figures of Speech
Parts of Speech
Informational Materials
100
This is the point of view in which the narrator tells his/her own story, using the pronouns I, me, and my.
What is first person?
100
This is a group of consecutive lines in a poem similar to a paragraph in prose.
What is a stanza?
100
This is a phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not literally true.
What is a figure of speech?
100
This part of speech describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
100
The name of the reporter who wrote the article.
What is a byline?
200
This kind of narrator is all-knowing and does not use first person pronouns.
What is (third person) omniscient?
200
Novels, essays, and autobiographies are examples of this kind of writing.
What is prose?
200
This is the writing technique of giving human like characteristics to non-living things.
What is personification?
200
This part of speech expresses action or a state of being.
What is a verb?
200
Events told in the order in which they occurred.
What is chronological order?
300
This is the point of view in which the narrator is in the story, but focuses attention on one other character.
What is third person limited?
300
This is the term used for rhymes that occur at the ends of lines of poetry.
What is end rhyme?
300
This is a comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
300
FANBOYS is a phrase to help remember this part of speech that joins words or word groups.
What is a conjunction?
300
These are set in bold face type and italics.
What are key words?
400
This can be supported by facts, but cannot be proven true or false.
What is opinion?
400
This is a poem whose shape resembles the subject it describes.
What is a concrete poem?
400
This is a comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
400
This part of speech modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
What is an adverb?
400
A graphic or picture that shows parts or how something works.
What is a diagram?
500
In this kind of writing, the writer shares his/her own thoughts, feelings, opinions, and judgements.
What is subjective (writing)?
500
This is the use of words whose sounds imitate their meaning.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
This is a commonly used expression that is not literally true.
What is an idiom?
500
This part of speech shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word.
What is a preposition?
500
The reason why something is written.
What is purpose?
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