Fiction
Greek Root Words
Figurative Language
Poetry Terms
Word Parts
100

This part of the plot is at the beginning of the story where the setting and the characters are introduced

What is the exposition?

100

The Greek Root Word that means "Life"

What is "BIO"?

100

This compares two unrelated things using the words "like" or "as"

What is a simile?

100

This type of poem doesn't use rhythm or rhyme

What is blank verse or free verse?

100

The most basic part of a word that holds the core of the word's meaning

What is the root word?
200

A universal idea that the author expresses throughout a story.  Also, what the protagonist learns by the end of the story.

What is theme?

200

The meaning of the root word CHRON in chronology

What is "TIME"?

200

The compares two unrelated things using the word is or any versions of the verb "to be"

What is a metaphor?

200

This is a word that implies more than its literal meaning and often has a positive or negative association

What is connotation?

200

This shows up at the END of a word and changes its meaning

What is a suffix?

300

This is the main character of a story who champions a cause or works to resolve the conflict in a story

Who is a protagonist?

300

The Greek Root Word that means "Feeling/Suffering"

What is "PATH"?

300

This is the repeated use of the same letter sound at the start of the word

What is alliteration?

300

When one or more words match in sound

What is rhyme?

300

This appears at the FRONT of a root word and changes its meaning

What is a prefix

400

The perspective from which the story is told.  It can be determined by examining the pronouns used by the narrator

What is "Point of View"

400

The Greek Root Word that means  "self"

What is AUTO?

400

When inanimate or or other living things such as plants or animals are described or given human characteristics

What is personification?

400

When there is a pattern to the use of rhyming from line to line or stanza to stanza

What is rhyme scheme?

400

Most root words come from ancient Greek and ________

What is Latin?

500

This is the acronym used to remember the steps in creating a summary of a story

What is SWBST?

500

The Greek Root Word that means "fear"

What is "PHOB"

500

A poet's use of vivid language and description through the use of the five senses to enhance meaning

What is imagery?

500

A group of lines that compose the basic segment of a poem.  

What is a stanza?

500

This is the smallest unit of a word that has meaning

What is a morpheme

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