Literary Elements
Authors of Literaure
Prefixes
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A kind of literature such as a play, science fiction, novel etc.
What is genre?
100
This author wrote Little House on the Prairie and was from Walnut Grove, Minnesota.
Who was Laura Ingalls Wilder?
100
This two-letter prefix means again or back.
What is re?
100
This four-letter suffix means without such as I am without fear.
What is less?
100
This word means a brief prose narrative that has very few characters.
What is a short story?
200
A person in a story.
What is a character?
200
This author wrote Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as well as the Raven.
Who was Edgar Allen Poe?
200
The three-letter prefix means before.
What is pre?
200
This three-letter suffix means a person who studies something such as biology.
What is ist?
200
The time and place in a story.
What is setting?
300
A person or thing in the story struggling against the main character.
What is the antagonist?
300
This author wrote the Deerslayer and the Last of the Mohicans.
Who was James Fennimore cooper?
300
This three-letter word means under like below in a boat.
What is sub?
300
This three-letter word means the study of something.
What is ogy?
300
A figure of speech that makes a comparison using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
400
The main character in a story.
What is the protagonist?
400
He wrote the Lost World and the stories about Sherlock Holmes.
Who was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
400
This four-letter word means half like in a half circle.
What is semi?
400
This three-letter suffix means name.
What is nom or nym?
400
A figure of speech that says one thing is another; a figure of speech that makes a comparison.
What is a metaphor?
500
The use of a word to imitate a sound such as the hisssss of a snake.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
He wrote a Christmas Carol(Scrooge) and Oliver Twist.
Who was Charles Dickens?
500
This three-letter word means not, or opposite of such as I do not agree.
What is dis?
500
This three-letter word means foot or feet.
What is pod?
500
The resolution to a story that usually comes at the end of that story.
What is denouement?
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