Literary Terms
Books
Short Stories
Roots
Figurative Language
100
Saying one thing when the opposite is intended or occurs.
What is irony?
100
The book where the society was supposed to be a utopia and no person could see colors or have emotions.
What is The Giver?
100
In this short story, the main characters move into a furnace to try to have a better life.
What is Open House?
100
The root that means many or more.
What is poly?
100
A comparison of two or more things using like or as.
What is a simile?
200
Using an object/character to show a deeper meaning.
What is symbolism?
200
In this story, there is a little girl named Annie whose family gets killed.
What is Woods Runner?
200
The short story where a Cossack hunts humans on an island.
What is The Most Dangerous Game?
200
The root that means life.
What is bio?
200
Words that imitate the natural sound of a thing and provide sound effects.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
A clause that can stand alone as a sentence.
What is an independent clause?
300
In this story, there is a greek hero who goes on adventures.
What are The Adventures of Ulysses?
300
The story where a boy does not remember his actions because he has a tumor.
What is Midnight Michelangelo?
300
The root that means skin.
What is derm?
300
The simple repeating of a word in a sentence or poem.
What is repetition?
400
A sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses.
What is complex sentence?
400
A satire based on the Russian Revolution and the struggles for power between two men.
What is Animal Farm?
400
A short story that has Lauren, Kenny, and their parents.
What is Dawn Terminator?
400
Root that means rule by.
What is cracy?
400
The emotion the reader feels from the writing.
What is mood?
500
A word or phrase that describes another word or phrase.
What is a modifier?
500
In this book, the name of the president of Rwanda that was killed in 1994 during a plane crash is Juvena Habyarimana.
What is Genocide?
500
A short story that has humans with 5 eyes at the end.
What is Opabinia?
500
Root that means love or desire.
What is phile?
500
A short story about a real event.
What is anecdote?
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