Literary Terms
Type of Literature
Types of Writing
Literary Reading Skills
Stories/Poems studied in Units 1 - 4
100
During this stage of a story's plot, the conflict is resolved.
What is Falling Action?
100
A brief work of fiction with one or two main characters who face a single problem or confict.
What is a short story?
100
A type of writing that describes the similarities and differences between the plots of two texts.
What is a comparison and contrast essay?
100
To make a logical guess based on evidence from the text.
What is making an inference?
100
Reeve Lindbergh, the youngest child of pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh, relates how a father taught his kids to...
What is "Flying?"
200
A struggle between opposing forces. Sometimes the struggle is external or internal.
What is conflict?
200
A type of literature that tells a story. It might include elements such as rhyme and imagery.
What is narrative poetry?
200
Writing that involves specific details about the main character in a literary text.
What is a character sketch?
200
Using what you know to guess what might happen in a text.
What is a prediction?
200
When his father goes on a short trip, fourteen year old Walt Masters is left alone to look after their gold claim in northern Klondike.
What is "The King of Mazy May?"
300
A contrast between what is expected and what actually exists.
What is irony?
300
A Type of fiction that contains mysterious and often supernatural events that create horror.
What is Horror fiction?
300
An essay about an event that occurred over a period of time in which you learned a valuable lesson.
What is a phase autobiography?
300
To form a mental picture based on a written description.
What is visualizing?
300
A wealthy banker and lawyer enter into an agreement that involves living a life of solitary confinement for 15 years.
What is "The Bet?"
400
An interruption of the action to present events that took place at an earlier time.
What is a flashback?
400
A form of literature meant to be performed by actors before an audience.
What is a drama?
400
A type of writing that tells about a specific moment in time.
What is a narrative essay?
400
The message about life or human nature.
What is theme?
400
In November 1945, an elderly gentleman visits the rooms in which he and his family and friends hid from the Nazis.
What is "The Diary of Anne Frank?"
500
When a writer provides hints that suggest future events in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
500
A specific type of autobiography about the author's personal experiences.
What is a memoir?
500
A type of writing that provides a brief constructed response to a literary text.
What is a BCR?
500
A manner of writing that involves what is said, word choice, tone and or figurative language.
What is author's style?
500
While insisting that he is not mad, the narrator describes a murder he carefully plotted and carried out.
What is "The Tell-Tale Heart?"
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