Literary Terms
Compares two things using the words "like" or "as."
What is simile?
A literary work based on imagination rather than fact.
What is fiction?
Performed at half time of the last Super Bowl.
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
A person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
The YA books that place in Portland in a fantastical version of Forest Park.
What are the Wildwood Chronicles?
Giving human traits to nonhuman things
What is personification?
This genre often speculates about alternative ways of life that could be made possible by technological change.
What is science fiction?
Moved from Borussia Dortmund to Manchester City in the summer of 2023 for a fee of 60m euros, nicknamed the "Striking Viking."
Who is Erling Haaland?
An action word.
What is a verb?
Novel by Colleen Hoover that sparked a never-ending controversy in 2024 after it was adapted in a movie starring Blake Lively.
What is It Ends With Us?
When a writer drops hints about what will come later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
A narrative is written from the perspective of an author about an important part of their life. HINT: It is NOT "autobiography."
What is a memoir?
Pittsburgh rapper who passed away from an accidental overdose in 2018?
Who is Mac Miller?
A word that modifies or describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
Written in the 1920s by F. Scott Fitzgerald, this book asks the question, "Is the American dream possible to achieve, or simply just an illusion?"
What is The Great Gatsby?
The use or creation of a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes. For example, quack!
What is onomatopoeia?
A poem that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
What is free verse?
The 15th president of the United States, who is considered one of the worst presidents in history and is from Mr. Baker's hometown in PA.
Connects words, phrases, and clauses within a sentence. Think FANBOYS.
What are conjunctions?
Who is Toni Morrison?
When a writer places two contrasting concepts, people, or events directly side-by-side in a sentence or paragraph. Example: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
What is juxtaposition?
A subgenre within fantasy that paints a realistic view of the world while also including magical elements that are often closely associated with Latin American literature.
What is magical realism?
The capital of former Yugoslavia.
What is Belgrade?
Words used to show place, time, and/or direction?
"Above", "except," "before," and "near," are all examples.
Preposition.
The best-selling novel of all time.
What is Don Quixote?