Poetry
Fiction
Nonfiction
Language Terms
Other
100
Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme
What is free verse?
100
A struggle or clash between opposing characters or opposing forces.
What is conflict?
100
The most important idea expressed in a paragraph or in an essay.
What is the main idea?
100
The repetition of the same or very similar consonant sound in words that are close together.
What is alliteration?
100
A fictional story that is usually more than one hundred book pages long.
What is a novel?
200
Language that appeals to the senses.
What is imagery?
200
A person or animal who takes part in the action of a story, play or other literary work.
What is a character?
200
The story of a real person's life, written by another person.
What is a biography?
200
In general, a contrast between expectation and reality.
What is irony?
200
A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to emotion and imagination.
What is poetry?
300
A group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem
What is a stanza?
300
A story that explains something about the world and typically involves Gods or other superhuman beings.
What is a myth?
300
A reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, or science.
What is an allusion?
300
The overall emotion created by a work of literature.
What is mood?
300
A fictional prose narrative that is usually ten to twenty pages long.
What is short story?
400
A group of words repeated at interval in a poem, song, or speech.
What is a refrain?
400
The use of clues to suggest events that will happen later in the plot.
What is foreshadowing?
400
Prose writing that deals with real people, events, and places without changing any facts.
What is nonfiction?
400
A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of something else and is not literally true.
What is figurative language?
400
An exaggerated, fanciful story that gets more and more far-fetched as it is told and retold.
What is a tall tale?
500
A musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of certain other sound patterns.
What is rhythm?
500
A brief story in prose or verse that teaches a moral or gives a practical lesson about how to live one's life.
What is a fable?
500
The story of a person's life, written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
500
A figure of speech in which a nonhuman or nonliving thing or quality is talked about as if it were human or alive.
What is personification?
500
A story that explains something about the world and typically involves Gods or other superhuman beings.
What is a myth?
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