This is the most exciting part of the story, often known as the turning point.
What is the climax?
100
This part of speech shows that an action is being done.
What is a verb?
100
What is the form of literature in which the language is used creatively and artistically. Often creative language is used in addition to or instead of words with apparent meaning in this type of literature.
What is a poem?
100
to suck up or drink in a liquid; soak up.
What is absorb?
100
He wrote many picture books, along with a trilogy, one book of the three was extremely popular among young children called Where the Wild Things Are.
Who is Maurice Sendak?
200
This person in the story is the central character with all major events having some importance to him/her.
What is the protagonist?
200
This part of speech describes nouns.
What is an adjective?
200
This is a short rhyming poem with 14 lines. Shakespeare was known for writing many of these.
What is a sonnet?
200
To use or follow as a model.
What is to imitate?
200
This author is widely known and has written funny stories with a lot of rhyming. The popular book, Green Eggs and Ham was written by this author.
Who is Dr. Seuss?
300
This is the time and place in which the story takes place
What is the setting?
300
This part of speech normally indicates manner, time, place, cause, or degree. It can describe nouns and pronouns.
What is an adverb?
300
This is a five-lined poem. It is often witty and has a very distinct rhyme scheme; a-a-b-b-a
What is a limerick?
300
To take place, move, change, etc little by little.
What is gradual?
300
This author wrote the popular books, Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, and The Giving Tree. He is a poet who also illustrated his books.
Who is Shel Silverstein?
400
This is the author's underlying meaning or main idea that he/she is trying to convey throughout the story.
What is the theme?
400
This is a part of speech that links phrases to other parts of the sentence.
What is a preposition?
400
These are the three types of poetry.
What are epic, comic, and tragic poetry?
400
Low wet land often characterized by an assortment of grasses; synonym is swamp.
What is a marsh?
400
This author is also a brilliant illustrator who has had several books win Caldecott Medals, Flotsam was one of the picture books written/illustrated by this author.
Who is David Weisner?
500
This is the angle by which the story is told, where the reader is seeing the story by the protagonist's eyes.
What is first person point of view?
500
This is a word in a sentence that is added to convey emotion.
What is an interjection?
500
This type of poem is a lengthy narrative, often celebrating the adventures and accomplishments of a lengendary hero.
What is an epic poem?
500
To look at or inspect carefully.
What is survey?
500
This author composed many famous plays, sonnets, and stories in the 16th and early 17th century. Today many students find this literature hard to comprehend.