Parts of Speech
Figures of Speech
Angry Words
4"A's" & 1"S"
Plot Diagram
100
Part of speech that names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
100
A figure of speech consisting of a comparison using like or as.
What is a "simile"?
100
Easily provoked to anger; very irritable.
What is irascible?
100
To direct one's hopes or ambitions toward achieving something.
What is aspire?
100
A literary device used to introduce background information about events, settings, characters and conflict.
What is exposition?
200
A word that describes or clarifies a noun.
What is an adjective?
200
"The computer in the classroom was an old dinosaur."
What is a "metaphor"?
200
Resisting authority or control; hard to deal with or manage.
What is recalcitrant?
200
A strong feeling of misery or distress; suffering or pain.
What is anguish?
200
The series of events that build up and create tension and suspense.
What is the rising action?
300
Identifies action or state of being.
What is a verb?
300
"I am so tired I could sleep for a year."
What is a "hyperbole"?
300
Full of complaints; complaining.
What is querulous?
300
Doubtful or uncertain of meaning or intention.
What is ambiguous?
300
The highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of a short story.
What is the "Climax"?
400
Examples are: up, over, against, by, between
What are prepositions?
400
"Chocolate was her ‘Achilles heel."
What is an "allusion"?
400
Intentional behavior that would cause a person fear of injury or harm.
What is intimidate?
400
Filled with horror or shock.
What is aghast?
400
The part of a plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict is being resolved.
What is the "Falling Action"?
500
I, you, he, she, it, ours, them, who
What are pronouns?
500
“Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.”
What is "metonymy"?
500
Extremely wicked, evil, or villainous.
What is nefarious?
500
To believe, unfairly, that all people or things with a particular characteristic are the same.
What is a stereotype?
500
The final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work.
What is the resolution, or denouement?
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