Poetry
Non Fiction Texts
Literary Devices
Novels
Idioms
100

is a fourteen line poem with a fixed rhyme scheme. Often, they use iambic pentameter: five sets of unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables for a ten-syllable line

Sonnets

100

It's a type of text that utilizes a type of Diamond Structure. Where they give less information in the beginning and replace it with a Narrative or Historical.

Feature Articles

100

The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

Irony

100

The  character, Oskar Schindler in this novel, saved many Jewish lives.

The Boy on the Wooden Box 

100

What is the idiom that means a date where the two people never met before.

A blind date

200

It is a type of short form poetry originally from Japan.  Consists of three phrases that contain  a 5, 7, 5 pattern syllable counting.

Haiku Poem

200

 It is as direct as possible with the reader, without leaving out any relevant information.

News Article

200

It is a passing or indirect descriptive reference to something. You probably allude to things all the time in everyday speech, without even noticing.

Allusion

200

Where does the story, The Breadwinner, take place?

Afghanistan 

200

What is the idiom that means to make an extra effort?

Go the extra mile
300

is a form of verse, usually humorous and frequently rude, in five-line, predominantly anapestic meter with a strict rhyme scheme of AABBA.

Limerick

300

Composed of short paragraphs, headlines, and bylines.

News Articles

300

Are an interesting way to present exposition for your story, gradually revealing to the reader what happened in the past.

Flashback

300

What is the name of a book whose word titles are a colour and a monument?

The Red Pyramid

300

What is the idiom that expresses that you are not feeling well that day?

Under the weather or feeling blue

400

It is a type of lyrical stanza. It is an elaborately structured poem praising or glorifying an event or individual.

Ode Poem

400

The purpose of this kind of article is to Inform, Persuade, and Entertain the audience reading.

Feature Article

400

 It is an indirect, “polite” way of describing something too inappropriate or awkward to address directly

Euphemism 

400

It is an anthology of short stories and poems collected and edited by Alexander McCall Smith and it was written to benefit Darfuri refugees.

What you Wish For

400

What is the idioms that expresses when something rarely happens.

once in a blue moon

500

It is a poem of serious reflection, usually a lament for the dead.

Elegy Poem

500

It should be factual and informational, including a quote from key people and witnesses and should always be written in third person with no use of “I”.

News Articles

500

It is a rhetorical device that uses an ostensible self-contradiction to illustrate a rhetorical point or to reveal a paradox.

Oxymoron

500

What dog breed was Sounder in the book named Sounder.

Coonhound

500

What idiom expresses a moment to defuse or clarify an angry, tense, or confused situation by frank discussion.


clear the air

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