What is the repetition of the same consonant sound in words next to each other or close by?
100
Stories filled with exaggeration, similes, metaphors and plenty of descriptive language, told as if they are true, even though they can’t be.
What are tall tales?
100
Love at first sight, happily ever after, groups of 3 or 7, evil stepmother, helpful talking animals.
What are Fairy Tale Tropes?
100
The 4 books Zachary used in his book presentation.
What are A Brave New World, 1984, Farenheight 451, Animal Farm?
100
Allusion
What is a reference to a fairly well known event, place or person?
200
Writing Challenge # 1
Writing Challenge # 1
200
I can be long, my structure varies, sometimes I’m short or fragmented, and I often hold something back.
What is the Sentence – for creating tension?
200
An example of personification from the Tell-Tale Heart.
What is death, time, hands of the clock, etc.?
200
Oxford Comma
What is a comma that comes before the conjunction in a list?
200
The writer or speaker’s attitude towards his subject.
What is tone?
300
In literature, an object, person, or event that represents an idea or feeling.
What is a symbol?
300
Writing Challenge # 3
Writing Challenge # 3
300
A French scullery maid named Annette
Who was the most beautiful woman in the world when Buttercup was born?
300
Writing Challenge # 4
Writing Challenge # 4
300
The 3 different types of irony.
What are verbal, dramatic, and situational?
400
Speech that reflects the vocabulary, grammar, and speech patterns of a geographic region.
What is Dialect?
400
According to Elmore Leonard, this is the only dialogue tag you should use.
What is said?
400
Writing Challenge # 2
Writing Challenge # 2
400
In one version of this story, the father died because his son was so lazy.
What is Aladin?
400
Writing Challenge # 5
Writing Challenge # 5
500
You’ll never guess this in a hundred, thousand, million years.
What is Hyperbole?
500
The most important question for moving your plot forward.
What is the worst thing that can happen?
500
The three armies Ender was in.
What are Rat, Salamander, Dragon?
500
According to the Tale of Pecos Bill, this is how the Painted Desert got its name.
What is: While a tribe of painted indians did a wardance
Pecos started shooting up their little game
He gave them redskins such a shake up
That they jumped out from their makeup
That's the way the Painted Desert got its name.
500
The difference between an understatement and a litote.
What is a litote uses a negative to state a positive idea and understatement downplays the situation.