Figurative Language
Non-Fiction
Poetry
Fiction
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100
Words that are sounds.
What is onomotopoeia?
100
A story about a person's life written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
100
A group of lines in a poem (a paragraph of poetry).
What is a stanza?
100
The time and place a story takes place.
What is setting?
100
The moral or lesson of a story.
What is theme?
200
"She is as beautiful as a rose" is an example of...
What is a simile?
200
A story about someone's life written by another person.
What is a biography?
200
"The moon is a white frisbee floating over the mountain," is an example of:
What is a metaphor?
200
The most exciting part of a story (the turning point).
What is the climax?
200
The way an author feels (author's attitude) about his subject.
What is tone?
300
"I am so hungry I can eat a horse" is an example of...
What is a hyperbole?
300
From these four novel, this one is non-fiction: The Lightning Thief, A Midsummer Night's Dream, I am Malala, the Harry Potter Series.
What is I am Malala?
300
When one thing represents another in a poem. Example: Crown represents power.
What is a symbol/symbolism?
300
The ending of a story (on a plot diagram).
What is the resolution?
300
The feeling the author creates in a story.
What is mood?
400
"The chair jumped across the room" is an example of...
What is personification?
400
Non-fiction articles often have these headings that separate ideas?
What are subheadings?
400
A poem that tells a story. (Another word for story.)
What is a narrative poem?
400
Point of view that uses "I".
What is first person?
400
Three reasons an author writes.
What is entertain, persuade and inform?
500
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers..." is an example of this.
What is a alliteration?
500
The main purpose of non-fiction is to...
What is inform?
500
Most of Shakespeare's playa are written in this form (10 syllable lines)
What is iambic pentameter?
500
Three different ways the author reveals his characters.
What is what the characters says, what the character does, and what others say about the character, physical characteristics, reader's reaction?
500
A fire station burning down is one example of this.
What is irony (situational)?
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