Figurative Language
Fiction Terms
Nonfiction Terms
Writing Terms
Wild Card
100
A comparison using "like" or "as" Ex. "Life is like a box of chocolates."
What is a simile?
100
A conversation between two or more people.
What is dialogue?
100
The main idea or main point that the author is making, or what the text is mostly about.
What is the central idea?
100

What do you call the writer's opinion statement?

The Thesis Statement

100
The feeling created by a piece of literature. Ex. Joyful, Mournful
What is mood?
200
Direct comparison Ex. "The front is a cage."
What is a metaphor?
200
Clues that hint at what is going to happen later in the plot.
What is foreshadowing?
200
When an author is instructing, entertaining, or persuading the reader.
What is the purpose?
200

How does a writer support his/her thesis statement? 

Textual Evidence

200
The author/speaker's attitude toward the subject.
What is tone?
300
Gives human characteristics to non-humans. Ex. "The trees whispered in the breeze."
What is personification?
300

The moral or lesson that the story is trying to teach/convey.

What is theme?

300
The act of coming to a conclusion based on facts or making and educated guess.
What is an inference?
300
What punctuation marks do you add to show copied text? 

Quotation marks 

300
When a character struggles with an internal or external force.
What is a conflict?
400
A statement that is not meant to be taken literally. Ex. "Are you pulling my leg?"
What is an idiom?
400
A reference to a person, place, or another work of literature. Ex. In Persepolis, Marji talks about listening to Kim Wilde & Iron Maiden.
What is an allusion?
400
How a passage is organized. Ex. Compare and contrast, cause and effect, etc.
What is structure?
400

What is the error in this statement? 

In line 6, the author states the boy "smiled like the sun was in his hands."

In line 6, the author states the boy "smiled like the sun was in his hands".

400
When two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect Ex. Living death, jumbo shrimp
What is an oxymoron?
500
Extreme exaggeration. Ex. "I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse."
What is a hyperbole?
500

The positive or negative feelings/emotions that are associated with a word.

What is connotation?

500
The use of a question for persuasion that doesn't really need to be answered by the reader.
What is a rhetorical question?
500

ALL PARTICIPATE - FIRST CORRECT GETS THE POINTS: 

Correct the statement below. 

In line 8 the author say swimming was my favorte sport in high school.

In line 8, the author says "swimming was my favorite sport in high school".

500
A brief and sometimes witty story that focuses on a single interesting event, often in order to make a point or teach a moral lesson.
What is an anecdote?
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