Deals with a crime or other puzzling matters to be solved. The main character is often the detective in pursuit of the “bad guys.”
What is mystery?
100
Information sources such as encyclopedias, yearbooks, directories, and atlases.
What is reference material?
100
The repetition of consonant sound
What is alliteration?
100
The name of a particular person, place or thing.
What is a proper noun?
100
This fantasy, adventure and science fiction trilogy takes place in Panem.
What is the Hunger Games?
200
Action packed story with the emphasis on plot and with a clearly defined conflict. The main character (hero/heroine) usually struggles with other people or nature, and faces a series of physical challenges.
What is action adventure?
200
A story that takes place in the present dealing with the problems of today.
What is contemporary fiction?
200
An understatement for effect: a deliberate understatement, such as an affirmative statement expressed by stating the opposite of what one means.
What is a litote?
200
Used to help another verb that cannot be used alone. They make a verb phrase.
What is an auxiliary or helping verb?
200
The dystopic fiction takes place in a world devoid of colour and music.
What is The Giver?
300
It is a story that takes place in the past, dealing with some aspect of history. The main character is fictional but other characters may have been real.
What is historical fiction?
300
A text written from an author’s imagination, is intended to entertain and is usually written in the form of a novel or short story.
What is fiction?
300
Giving a human characteristic to a non human object.
What is personification
300
A word used in place of a noun. It usually refers to a noun already mentioned.
What is a pronoun?
300
Created by author R.L Stein, these children's fiction/horror novels have been read by millions?
What is Goosebumps?
400
A story that takes place in an imagined world and is based on scientific facts projected into future possibilities (often deals with space travel or life on other planets).
What is science fiction?
400
A text that is factual writing which provides information about a particular topic.
What is non-fiction?
400
Imitation of sound in words: the formation or use of words that imitate the sound associated with the thing or action in question.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
DAILY DOUBLE
A word that shows the relationships of a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentence.
What is a preposition?
400
This series is spilt into three novel where citizens are divided into five groups based on their personality traits
What is Divergent?
500
A story that deals with imaginary people and creatures in imaginary places. Characters and events could not exist in real life and have no basis in science
What is fantasy?
500
DAILY DOUBLE
The story of a person's life, written by that person.
What is autobiography?
500
An exaggeration: a deliberate and obvious exaggeration used for effect
What is hyperbole?
500
Connects a noun, pronoun or adjective with the subject.