Parts of Speech
Short Stories
Figurative language
Lit elements
Misc
100
A person, place, or thing (or idea)
What is a noun?
100
When and where a story takes place
What is setting
100
"Your eyes are as blue as the sky" is an example of what?
What is simile?
100
“He was a real Romeo with the ladies." is an example of?
What is allusion? “He was a real Romeo with the ladies.” Romeo, the lead character in Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, is considered to be a true romantic hero, and won over Juliet against her family's wishes.
100
Getting in a fight with your best friend is an example of?
What is external conflict
200
"in the jungle" is what part of speech?
What is prepositional phrase
200
The overall message the story is portraying
What is theme
200
"The alarm clock laughed mockingly at me as I woke up on Monday" is an example of?
What is personification?
200
the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
What is syntax?
200
a conversation involving 2 or more people is called?
What is dialogue?
300
Jumped, ran, see, and forget are all examples of what?
What is verbs
300
The difference between mood and tone
What is tone is the author's attitude toward a subject. Mood is how we are made to feel as readers, or the emotion evoked by the author.
300
"Life is a roller coaster" is an example of?
What is metaphor?
300
The use of metaphors, similies, hyperboles, etc. in writing
What is figurative language?
300
a person or thing that actively opposes or is hostile to the main character of a story.
What is antagonist
400
In the sentence "Samuel was tall and loved to play basketball," what part of speech is "tall"?
What is adjective
400
a character struggling with depression is an example of?
What is internal conflict
400
what is the difference between alliteration and assonance?
What is alliteration is the repetition of consonants and assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds
400
what is the difference between 1st person POV and 3rd person POV?
What is first person is someone telling you his or her story. Third person is the narrator telling the story.
400
A hit toward something in the future of the story is called?
What is foreshadowing?
500
Name the noun(s), verb(s), adjective(s) and preposition(s) in this sentence: Emilia frowned at the ugly clown.
What is noun=Emilia, clown Verb=Frowned Adjective= the, ugly Preposition= at
500
The main character of a story is called?
What is protagonist?
500
What is irony?
What is a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.
500
a description of the distinctive nature or features of someone or something.
What is characterization?
500
"Like father, like son" and "easy come, easy go" are examples of?
What is parallelism?
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