Vocabulary
Grammar
Literary Elements
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100
This root word means to believe.
What is cred?
100
This part of speech names a person, place or thing.
What is a noun.
100
The term that names the time and place of a story is called this.
What is the setting.
100
Facing the Lion is an example of this subgenre of nonfiction?
What is an autobiography?
100
He was the author of A Long Way from Chicago?
What is Richard Peck?
200
This root word means life.
What is bio?
200
There are 4 kinds of sentences, name the four.
What are imperative, interrogative, declarative, and exclamatory sentences?
200
Another word for the main problem in a story.
What is the conflict?
200
What are the 3 main genres of literature?
What are poetry, prose, and drama?
200
Shakespeare's theatre was called this.
What is the Globe Theatre?
300
A person who comes after someone else (usually related to a person taking over a job that is of higher rank).
What is a successor?
300
There are 3 types of verbs. Name them.
What are action, linking, and helping verbs?
300
The turning point of a story is called this. It is also the area of heightened action.
What is the climax.
300
This type of fiction includes fairytales, folktales, myths, and legends.
What is traditional literature.
300
The two ways you can include evidence in your writing.
What is to paraphrase and to directly quote.
400
This word means evil, dishonest, to break away from honesty.
What is corrupt?
400
Name the verb and type of verb in the sentence. Sally is a great dancer.
What is "is" and linking verb.
400
"The stars winked and blinked in the sky" is an example of which poetic element.
What is personification?
400
These are the three main purposes for author's writing any genre.
What are to inform, to explain, and to persuade.
400
Haiku poems come originally from this country.
What is Japan?
500
A short dedication written in a book or engraved on something, such as a coin or monument.
What is an inscription?
500
Create a sentence with an intensive pronoun.
What is "I did the dishes myself!"
500
This is the difference between the mood and tone of a piece of writing.
What is the mood is the feeling of the reader and the tone is the feeling of the writer.
500
This type of poem has a strict rhyme scheme, consists of 14 lines, and Shakespeare was known for writing them.
What is a sonnet.
500
Beowulf had bad eye sight because of this.
What is he was stung by bees when he was younger.
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