This is the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle )
What is an onomatopoeia?
100
These words are used to modify verbs. They tell us when, where, how, in what manner, or to what extent an action is performed.
What is an adverb?
100
A figure of speech where animals, ideas or inorganic objects are given human characteristics.
What is personification?
100
A short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.
What is a fable?
100
Recalling data or information is application, synthesis, or knowledge.
What is knowledge?
200
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is alliteration?
200
A word, phrase that is characteristically used to express sudden emotion.
What is an interjection?
200
The pattern of events or main story in a narrative or drama.
What is the plot?
200
A literary genre in which true and fictional actions takes place in the past.
What is historical fiction?
200
Build a structure or pattern from concepts, facts and/or ideas. Put parts together to form a whole, with emphasis on creating a new meaning or structure is comprehension, application, or synthesis.
What is synthesis?
300
This term refers to a short poem in which the poet, the poet’s persona, or another speaker expresses personal feelings.
What is a lyric?
300
A word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause.
What is a conjunction?
300
The most intense, exciting, or important point of a story; a culmination or apex.
What is the climax?
300
A traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events.
What is a myth or folk tale?
300
Understand the meaning, translation, and interpretation of text and problems is application, comprehension, or analysis.
What is comprehension?
400
Typically at the end of a verse line. In this poetic style, the words conventionally share all sounds following the word’s last stressed syllable.
What is a rhyme?
400
A word that can function by itself as a noun or that refers to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the sentence.
What is a pronoun?
400
The locale or period in which the action of a novel, play, film, etc., takes place.
What is the setting?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
What is poetry?
400
Apply a process to judge the value and/or quality of ideas, sources, or resources is analysis, knowledge, or evaluation.
What is evaluation?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
What is imagery?
500
A word or group of words that is used with a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, location, or time, or to introduce an object.
What is a preposition?
500
A literary term referring to how a person, situation, statement, or circumstance is not as it would actually seem. Many times it is the exact opposite of what it appears to be.
What is irony?
500
A form of literature usually consisting of scripted dialogue between characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading.
What is a play?
500
Use a concept in a new situation or reason to explain abstract ideas is comprehension, evaluation, or application.