Fan of Fiction
What's the Word
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In the "Real" World
100

This is the name of the person who tells the story.

Who is the narrator?

100

This is the past tense of the word "compensate."

What is compensated?

100

This always happens to Proper Nouns like Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa.

What is capitalization?

100

These are clues that help you predict the end of a story.

What is foreshadowing?

100

This word means based on facts, real events and real people.

What is nonfiction?

200

This is where the plot thickens and more tension in the story starts to take place.

What is the rising action?

200
This action word is used when your worst nightmare happens in an airplane, an elevator, or a rollercoaster. It's falling fast!

What is plummet?

200

These are the seven coordinating conjunctions, and BOY are they fans:)

What is for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?

200

This sentence becomes a metaphor when you drop this word in the sentence: "Life is just as the sea; it rushes in."

What is the word "as"?

200

Could be a book, magazine, article, or interview.  This is what we a call a thing that gives us valuable information.

What is a source?

300

Joker, Maleficent, Lex Luther, Voldemort...you name it! These villains always stand in the way of the HERO.

Who is the antagonist?

300

Outlines, meal prep, lesson plans, prepping for an interview all have this in common!  In other words, you're being this.

What is logistical?

300

It's possibly the missing word to complete the parallel structure in this sentence:  "My brother loves swimming, ______, and skydiving."

What is jogging, wrestling, gaming, or any word that ends in -ing?

300

This is a specific type of theme that shows up right at the very end of the text, leaving you with the moral of the story.

What is direct theme?

300

Doctors, lawyers, researchers, scientists, and specialists.  Their opinions are almost always considered ______ opinions.

What is expert?

400

One of these is NOT a form of a fiction: fairytale, fable, biography, or science fiction.

What is biography?

400

This is the correct spelling of the word ________.

What is C O I N C I D E N T A L?

400

It's where the comma goes in this sentence: "None of the actors seemed friendly nor did they want to sign their autographs."

What is "after friendly and before nor"?

400

We call it this when a fire station bursts into flames and catches fire.

What is ironic?

400

Since there is not a narrator in most information texts, we refer to the person who wrote it.  We call them the ____.

Who is the author?

500

In the short story "Love" when Ms. Vera Brown is absent for the first time, this is what we call the part of the story that sets the main character on the journey that will occupy them throughout the rest of the story.

What is the inciting incident?

500

The word harmonious become a NOUN when the suffix is dropped and this "questionable" letter is added to the end.

What is the letter -y?

500

This is the correct object pronoun to complete the sentence: The neighbor went shopping for my brother and (me, I).

What is me?

500

The point of view in which the narrator is not in the story, but tells us some of what the characters are doing and saying.  Uses pronouns like he, she, it, and they.

What is third person limited point of view?

500

Information is thought to be this when it is recent or timely, when it is backed by evidence and research, when it is without bias, and when it is published by a well-respected source.

What is credible?

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