Literature that features made-up characters, events, and settings.
What is fiction?
100
The events that occur in a story.
What is plot?
100
A person in a story.
What is character?
100
A true story about a person's life.
What is biography?
100
A woman who appears in a mirror when a person calls her name three times.
Who is Bloody Mary?
200
Verse written to create a response of thought and feeling from the reader and which usually uses rhythm and rhyme.
What is poetry?
200
The time and place where a story occurs.
What is setting?
200
The main character or hero who must solve the problems and "save the day" in a story.
What is protagonist?
200
A piece of writing that describes something to the reader so that they will know more about a certain topic.
What is informational (writing)?
200
A story about a woman who may (or may not) have killed her parents with "forty whacks" from an axe.
Who is Lizzie Borden?
300
Literature that features characters, events, and settings which could never exist in real life.
What is fantasy?
300
The turning point and usually the most exciting part of a story.
What is climax?
300
The villain or "bad guy" who causes the problems for the hero.
What is antagonist?
300
A true story about a person's life written by that person.
What is autobiography?
300
The place where a mysterious creature with green eyes roams, reminding visitors of the senseless death and violence of The Civil War.
What is Chickamauga Battlefield?
400
Literature that features made-up characters interacting in a setting which is a real time period in history.
What is historical fiction?
400
The problems and obstacles the main character encounters. This can be man vs man, man v nature, man vs technology, or man vs self.
What is conflict?
400
A list of characters in a book or play.
What is dramatis personae?
400
The methods of mass communication by which people receive information about the world. These can be visual or auditory and use various levels of technology.
What is media?
400
The wolf who blew down the houses of some pigs didn't actually want to eat them--he just wanted this.
What is (a cup of) sugar?
500
A type of traditional literature which is passed down orally from one group to another by common people.
What are folk tales?
500
The ending of a story where all the problems have been solved.
What is resolution?
500
A person's way of seeing things that can determine how much or how little a reader really knows about the events of a story.
What is POV (or perspective)?
500
A well-known informational source containing words and their synonyms.
What is thesaurus?
500
This larger-than-life man died after winning a challenge against a machine.