If you start something early, you have a better chance of success
What is The early bird gets the worm.
100
Someone is joking with you and/or not telling you the truth.
What is Pulling your leg?
100
Stories that are funny or witty.
What is Humorous Fiction?
100
Writing based on real or imaginary scientific developments and often set in the future, on other planets, or under the sea.
What is Science Fiction?
100
She's looking at me when she says it, though. It isn't that I don't like fried rabbit. Like it fine. I just don't want to bite down on buckshot, is all, and I'm checking each piece.
(First or third person)
What is First Person?
200
To study hard
What is Hit the books.
200
To deceive or trick someone.
What is Pull a fast one?
200
Stories that take place in modern times. The characters are involved in events that could happen.
What is Realistic Fiction?
200
Survival stories that may include danger, unknown risks, and/or remarkable experiences.
What is Adventure?
200
The time and place the story takes place.
What is Setting?
300
To suspect that something is wrong
What is Smell a rat.
300
Keep quiet; don't speak.
What is Button your lip?
300
A made-up story that is based on a real time and place in history, so fact is mixed with fiction.
What is Historical Fiction?
300
A story set in an imaginary world in which the characters usually have supernatural powers or abilities.
What is Fantasy?
300
What the story is about-usually one or two sentences.
What is Main Idea?
400
I'm listening carefully.
What is I'm all ears?
400
A difficult or unfavorable position; at a disadvantage.
What is Behind the eight ball?
400
Stories that are based on suspenseful or mysterious events that could happen.
What is Mystery?
400
A story the writer tells about another person's life.
What is Biography?
400
The main character in the story.
What is Protagonist?
500
The tings other people have or their situations always look better than your own.
What is The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence?
500
A dangerous person pretending to be harmless.
What is A wolf in sheep's clothing?
500
A story the writer tells about his or her own life.
What is Autobiography?
500
Non-fiction: Giving facts about a topic.
What is Informational?
500
A character's struggle with an outside force such as nature, society, or another person.
(That type of conflict is this?)