Elements of Fiction
Figurative Language
Genres
Poetry Elements
All About the Author
100
When the setting and characters are introduced
What is exposition?
100
Comparison using like or as.
What is simile?
100
Literary work conjured in the writer's imagination.
What is fiction?
100
"The Odyssey" is this type of poem.
What is epic poem?
100
A writer expressing an opinion, often without cause is an example of this.
What is bias?
200
When things start getting heated up in the story.
What is rising action?
200
Form mental images that appeal to the senses using description.
What is imagery?
200
Short story with a moral. Example "The Boy Who Cried Wolf".
What is fable?
200
Poetic paragraph
What is stanza?
200
Writing about one's own life is called this.
What is autobiography?
300
The turning point or highest point of emotion.
What is climax?
300
Repetition of ending consonant sounds
What is consonance?
300
Literature written for performance, to be acted out for an audience.
What is drama?
300
Musical quality created by a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is rhythm?
300
The reason for writing (entertainment, informing, expressing, etc.).
What is author's purpose?
400
The end of the story; all conflicts are solved.
What is the resolution?
400
Comparison in which something is said to actually be another thing.
What is metaphor?
400
Traditional story about gods or heroes; used to explain the natural world or customs and beliefs of a society.
What is myth?
400
Rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg and contains 14 lines. Shakespeare often wrote these.
What is sonnet?
400
An author's reader.
What is audience?
500
The fact that we knew Romeo and Juliet were going to die before they did.
What is dramatic irony?
500
Repetition of the initial consonance sound.
What is alliteration?
500
Writing that tells of actual people, events, or places.
What is non-fiction?
500
Unrhymed poetry that has no pattern or meter.
What is blank verse?
500
When two people talk the author creates this.
What is dialogue?
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