Parts of speech
Literary Devices
Poetry
Literary Devices
Miscellaneous
100

The part of speech that is a person, place, idea, or thing?

What is a noun.
100

The literary device that shows the sound in a literary work?

What is onomatopoeia.
100

A poem with meter that has a regular pace or beat?

What is rhythm? 

100

An exaggeration.

What is a hyperbole.

100

The name Jesus is what type of noun?

What is a proper noun.

200

The part of speech that shows action or state of being?

What is a verb.

200

The literary device that shows the speaking parts in a literary work?

What is dialogue.

200

The group of lines forming the basic structure of a poem; a group of lines in a poem/ the verses?

What is a stanza.

200

A familiar phrase that means something other than what it literally says. A common saying used in literature?

What is an idiom. 

200

The verb that has a direct object?

What is a transitive verb.

300

The part of speech that modifies a noun?

What is an adjective.

300

The literary device that compares two or more things using the words like or as?

What is a simile.

300

The verse or phrase that is repeated at intervals throughout a song or poem?

What is a refrain.

300

The literary device that occurs when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen? Events that happen the opposite of what you expect.

What is situational irony.

300

The peak of the story in the plot line.

What is the climax.
400
The part of speech that takes the place of a noun: feminine, masculine, and neutral. 

What is a pronoun.

400

The literary device that compares two things without using like or as?

What is a metaphor.

400

The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse?

What is rhyme scheme. 

400

This occurs when a speaker says one thing but means another?

What is verbal irony.

400

The action that happened in the beginning of the story, typically in the exposition, that starts the main plot of the story?

What is the inciting incident. 

500

The part of speech that modifies a verb?

What is an adverb.
500

The literary device that is the repetition of initial consonant sounds- initial s in stormy sounds solidify?

What is alliteration. 

500

The five-line stanza poem.

What is a cinquain. 

500
In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near each other for the echo to be discernible. 

What is assonance.

500

The a, an, and the are the most common type?


What is an article.

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