Parts of Speech
Literary Devices
Figurative Language
Genres of Literature
Poetry
100
a word that describes a noun or pronoun
What is an adjective?
100
Senator Obama stated, "I was not born in a manger. I was born on Krypton."
What is an allusion?
100
"John Deere's manure spreader is the only equipment the company won't stand behind."
What is a pun?
100
a story about someone's life written by another person
What is a biography?
100
the type of poem that expresses the feelings of a single speaker
What is a lyric poem?
200
a word that shows action or a state of being
What is a verb?
200
You can save money by spending money.
What is a paradox?
200
I'm just pulling your leg.
What is an idiom?
200
words written in verse often using imagery and rhythm to evoke an emotional response from the reader
What is poetry?
200
a type of poetry that tells a story and has a plot and characters
What is narrative poetry?
300
a word that is a person, place, thing or idea
What is a noun?
300
A literary scene that temporarily jumps back in time.
What is flashback?
300
The tornado ran through the town without a care.
What is personification?
300
stories composed in verse or prose, usually for theatrical performance, where conflicts and emotion are expressed through dialogue and action.
What is drama?
300
a fourteen-line lyric poem written in iambic pentameter with a carefully patterned rhyme scheme
What is a sonnet?
400
a word that describes a verb, adjective or another word of its kind
What is an adverb?
400
Hinting at an event that will take place later in a story or film.
What is foreshadowing?
400
The girls were happy as pigs in mud.
What is simile?
400
a short story, written in prose or verse, that illustrates a lesson
What is a parable?
400
any verse comprised of unrhymed lines all in the same meter, usually iambic pentameter
What is blank verse?
500
a word that links words, phrases, or clauses
What is a conjunction?
500
The man quickly stepped out of the way of the spraying waterhose and fell into the pool.
What is situational irony?
500
Life is a rollercoaster.
What is a metaphor?
500
a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human errors or peculiarities are made fun of (often political)
What is satire?
500
narrative poetry that uses dialogue
What is dramatic poetry?
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