Fiction
Poetry
Parts of Speech
Fiction 2
Poetry 2
100
Character
What is the person in a story?
100
Rhyme
What is words that sound the same at the end of the word?
100
Noun
What is a person, place, thing, or idea?
100

The setting

What is the time and place of a story

100

Onomatopoeia

What is the use of words to imitate sounds, such as "buzz" or "pop"

200
Protagonist
What is the main character in a story
200
Simile
What is a comparision that uses the words "like" or "as"?
200
Verb
An action word
200

Conflict

What is the struggle between opposing forces in literature.

200

Metaphor

What is a comparison that does not use "like" or "as"

300
Antagonist
What is the person in conflict with the main character?
300
Stanza
What is a group of lines in a poem?
300
Common Noun
What is the general name of a person, place, or thing?
300

Suspense

What is the growing interest and excitement a reader experiences while awaiting a climax or resolution in a work of literature. Writers create suspense by raising questions in the minds of their readers.

300

Hyperbole

What is an extreme exaggeration

400
Plot
What is the events in a story?
400
Personification
What is a poetic technique were non-living objects are giving human qualities?
400
Pronoun
What is a word that takes the place of a noun?
400

Mood

What is the atmosphere or feeling created in the reader by a literary work.

400

Imagery

What is words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses that writers use to describe how their subjects look, sound, feel, taste, and smell.

500
Theme
What is the main message of a story?
500
Couplet
What is two lines of poetry that have a rhyming word at the end of each line?
500
Proper Noun
What is the specific name of a person, place, or thing?
500

Tone

What is the writer's or speaker's attitude toward their subject.

500

Figurative Language

What is whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else. Any language that goes beyond the literal meaning of words.

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