Story Elements
Essay Writing
Poetry Structure
Guess That Figurative Language
Poetic Forms
100

The leading character, or one of the major characters in a work of literature.

Who is the Protagonist?

100

This grabs the attention of the reader.

What is the hook?

100
Lines grouped together like a paragraph.

What are stanzas?

100

The camel is the ship of the desert.

What is a metaphor?

100

a 14 line poem, typically (but not exclusively) concerning the topic of love

What is a sonnet?

200

This occurs at the beginning of the story and introduces the characters.

What is exposition?

200

This offers a concise summary of the main point or claim of the essay.

What is the thesis statement?

200

The beat of the poem.

What is the rhythm?

200

Don’t be a stick in the mud!

What is an Idiom?

200

a three-line poetic form originating in Japan.

What is a haiku?

300

The feeling or atmosphere created by the author in a literary work

What is Mood?

300

the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.

What is plagiarism?

300

the use of figurative language to evoke a sensory experience in the reader.

What is imagery?

300

I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger and then it hit me.

What is a pun?

300

poetry that lacks a consistent rhyme scheme, metrical pattern, or musical form.

What is free verse?

400

This narrator knows the thoughts and feeling of ALL the characters in a story.

Third-Person Omniscient

400

 a viewpoint that opposes your main argument, giving you the chance refute the opposition and show why your position is the right one to have.

What is a counterargument? or rebuttal? 

400

an object that stands for, or represents, an idea, belief, superstition, social or political institution.

What is a symbol?

400

They ate jumbo shrimp.

What is an oxymoron?

400

poetry written with a precise meter—almost always iambic pentameter—that does not rhyme.

What is blank verse?

500

Any story element that appears again and again in stories from cultures around the world and symbolizes something universal in the human experience.

What is an archetype?

500

This is the correct order or the writing process.

(Revising, Prewriting, Publishing, Editing, Drafting) 

What is 

Prewriting, Drafting, Revising, Editing, Publishing?

500

a line of writing that consists of ten syllables in a specific pattern of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

What is iambic pentameter?

500

Chocolate is his Kryptonite.

What is an allusion?

500

a poem that reflects upon death or loss.

What is an elegy?

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