A struggle the main character of a story has in the story.
What is conflict?
100
Writing that is imaginative and designed to entertain.
What is fiction?
100
A humorous use of words or phrases or a play on words.
What is a pun?
100
Giving human characteristics to a nonhuman object.
What is personification?
200
The teller of a story.
What is the narrator?
200
The feeling that writing creates.
What is mood?
200
Writing that is about real people and events.
What is nonfiction?
200
A story about an experience that changes a literary character's life.
What is a turning point?
200
A Japanese poetry form, made of seventeen unrhymed syllables.
What is haiku?
300
The main character in a story that is usually the good guy.
What is the protagonist?
300
The position from which the author or storyteller tells the story.
What is point of view?
300
A story in which the main character solves a crime.
What is a detective story?
300
The repetition of initial consonant sounds such as the phrase, "Sister Susie sifting sand on the salty seashore."
What is alliteration?
300
Humorous writing that makes fun of foolishness or evil.
What is satire?
400
A person or thing in the story struggling against the main character.
What is the antagonist?
400
A figure of speech that makes a comparison using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
400
A false name used for writing, such as Mark Twain.
What is a pen name?
400
A literary movement that focuses on the survival of the fittest against nature and features characters as being helpless against events that are beyond human control and understanding.
What is naturalism?
400
A rhyming pair that is usually two lines that rhyme and make up a unit or a complete thought
What is a couplet?
500
A kind of literature such as science fiction, a play, or nonfiction.
What is genre?
500
A figure of speech that says one thing is another and is making a comparison.
What is a metaphor?
500
The use of words that seem to say one thing but mean the opposite.
What is irony?
500
The use of a words to imitate a sound, such as the hissssss of a snake.