Types of Literature
Parts of Speech
Literary Terms
100
True stories of actual events or characters.
What is Non-fiction
100
A person, place, or thing.
What is a Noun.
100
A brief reference or mention of a famous person, place or thing or ideas.
What is an allusion.
200
A story for stage performance by actors.
What is Play
200
Tells what action someone or something is doing or expresses a state of being.
What is a Verb.
200
The use of clues by an author to prepare readers for events that will happen later.
What is foreshadowing.
300
Invented stories with imaginary characters and events.
What is Fiction.
300
Describes a noun or pronoun. It tells what kind, how many, or which one.
What is an adjective.
300
A figure of speech in which an animal, object, or idea is described as having human form or characteristics.
What is personification.
400
Words arranged in metrical pattern, often using rhymed verse in an imaginative style.
What is Poetry.
400
Describes a verb, adjective, or adverb. It tells how, when, where, or to what extent.
What is an adverb.
400
An exaggeration- not meant to be taken (literally) seriously
What is a hyperbole.
500
An anonymous, timeless, and placeless story that was originally told rather than written.
What is Folk Tale.
500
Describes a relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence.
What is a Preposition.
500
A comparison of two things using like or as.
What is a simile.
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