Genre
Poetic Devices
Literary Terms
Hodge Podge
Reading Skills
100
This type of writing is made up.
What is fiction.
100
Uses like, as, than, or resembles to compare two things.
What is a simile.
100
The main character in a literary work.
What is a protagonist.
100
The reason a character behaves in a certain way.
What is motivation.
100
Reading between the lines.
What is drawing conclusions.
200
The type of writing tells about the life of someone that is written by that person.
What is autobiography.
200
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is meter.
200
The final part of a story which tells how the conflict was solved.
What is resolution.
200
The author of a play, or drama.
What is a playwright.
200
Something that can be verified or proved.
What is a fact.
300
This type of writing use meter and rhyme.
What is poetry.
300
A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit.
What is stanza.
300
Interruption in the present action of a plot to show events that happened at an earlier time.
What is flashback.
300
A repeated sound, word, phrase, line, or group of lines.
What is a refrain.
300
A guess based on clues.
What is inference.
400
This type of writing is about aliens, space, the future, etc.
What is science fiction.
400
A fourteen-line poem. Shakespeare wrote a lot of these.
What are sonnets.
400
A reference to a famous person, place, statement, or an event from literature, the arts, history, religion, etc.
What is allusion.
400
The uncertainty or anxiety that a reader feels about what will happen next in a story, novel, or drama.
What is suspense.
400
An expression that is peculiar to a particular language that means something different from the literal meaning of the words.
What is an idiom.
500
This genre involves actors, actresses, and scripts..
What is drama.
500
Poetry that has no regular rhyme or pattern.
What is free verse.
500
The way a word makes you feel as well as the words definition.
What is connotation.
500
A play, novel, or other narrative in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
What is tragedy..
500
The most important point of a text.
What is main idea.
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