Figurative Language
Genre
Elements of Literature
Miscellaneous
Potpourri
100
Meow! Slurp! Bow Wow!
What is onomatopoeia?
100
A story about fairies, elves, magical deeds, and giants.
What is a fairy tale?
100
The events that happen in a story.
What is the plot?
100
The narrator uses pronouns such as I, me, we, or our to tell the story.
What is first-person?
100
After receiving a good report card, I felt like a million dollars.
What is an idiom?
200
Sally sells sea shells at the sea shore, and the shells she sells are seashells.
What is alliteration?
200
A story about people or animals that has been handed down from one generation to the next.
What is a folk tale?
200
Where and when a story takes place.
What is the setting?
200
Words that have similar meanings?
What are synonyms?
200
Words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings? For example: a bare bear
What are homophones?
300
The wind whispered through the night.
What is personification?
300
A story that uses real places, events, and times as a setting for an imagined story.
What is historical fiction?
300
Harry Potter, Katniss Everdeen, Sponge Bob, and the Big, Bad Wolf are examples.
What are characters?
300
The author uses pronouns such as he, him, she, her, or them to narrate the story.
What is third-person point of view?
300
Words that are spelled the same but have different meanings. For example: batter
What are homographs?
400
He was as cool as a cucumber.
What is a similie?
400
An expression of ideas or feelings in words that usually has form, rhythm, and rhyme.
What is a poem?
400
The message about life or nature that the author wants the reader to get from the story.
What is theme?
400
Some examples are: add-subtract, cry-laugh, handsome-ugly, and sour-sweet.
What are antonyms?
400
What is this an example of: hand : write :: bell : ring
What is an analogy?
500
The boy's stomach was a bottomless pit.
What is a metaphor?
500
A story written to be acted out in front of an audience.
What is a drama?
500
The development of the characters in a story.
What is characterization?
500
The narrator is not a character in the story.
What is third-person?
500
The struggle or problem that a character must overcome.
What is the conflict?
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