a pair of lines, typically offset from the rest of the poem
What is a couplet?
100
To persuade, inform, entertain, explain, teach a lesson
What are possible author's purposes?
100
She is as slow as a turtle.
What is a simile?
100
This can be presented internally or externally as a struggle between opposing forces. It’s what causes the action.
What is the conflict?
100
It captures the way people speak in real life. This can vary from situation to situation.
What is conversational voice?
200
This is considered a paragraph in a poem.
What is a stanza?
200
This is a personal story that tells about a memory.
What is a memoir?
200
Bang, Hiss, splat!
What is onomatopoeia?
200
This is the introduction to a story where the characters, setting and basic situation are first mentioned.
What is the exposition?
200
Examples of these would be historical fiction, folktale, fantasy, autobiography and myth.
What are genres?
300
This is a regularly repeated line or group of lines
What is a refrain?
300
A story composed orally and then passed from person to person by word of mouth. They originated to reflect the cultural beliefs and environments from which they came and are to entertain and often teach a lesson.
What is a folktale?
300
… that tells the reader to pause. Infers doubt or encourages the reader to take a moment more to think.
What is an ellipses point ?
300
This is the high point in the action of the plot. It is the moment of greatest tension, when the outcome of the plot becomes clear.
What is the climax or turning point?
300
Chronologically, question answer, and flashbacks, are some of the ways authors choose to do this.
What is text organization
400
A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem, indicated by using lower case letters.
What is a rhyme scheme?
400
It is the unstated message that the author intends to get across to the reader.
What is the implied or implicit theme?
400
A million bees had stung him.
What is Hyperbole?
400
This is the writing, word choice, type of speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses.
What is sensory language?
400
Examples of these would be scripts, bracketed stage directions, dialogue, acts, scenes, and sets;to name a few.
What are devices specific to drama?
500
The ocean crashed angrily during the storm.
What is personification?
500
This is the form of a language spoken by people in a particular region or group. It can differ in proununciation, grammar, and word choice.
What is dialect?
500
Lovely lonely lights lit the lane
What is alliteration
500
It is the outcome of the story or the lesson learned
What is denouement?
500
These are the parts of a piece that add additional information and visual appeal, such as charts, graphs, subheadings, pictures, or captions.