FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
PLOT
GENRE
WORDS
DEFINITIONS
100
The repetition of the same sound at the beginning of each word in a sentence.
What is alliteration?
100
The introduction to the conflict.
What is rising action?
100
The story of a person’s life written by someone other than whom it is about.
What is a biography?
100
A word part at the beginning of the word used to change the meaning of the word.
What is a prefix?
100
The reason the author writes the selection.
What is author's purpose?
200
A figure of speech that cannot be defined by the individual words.
What is an idiom?
200
When the protagonist and antagonist work together to solve the conflict.
What is falling action?
200
The literary genre of work intended for the theater; a play.
What is drama?
200
A word part at the end of the word used to change the mean of the word.
What is suffix?
200
The way the author describes a character. The author uses feelings and actions to describe the character.
What is characterization?
300
Comparing two or more things without using “like” or “as”.
What is a metaphor?
300
How the conflict is worked out at the end of the story.
What is resolution?
300
A fictional story that may feature fantastical characters and enchantments.
What are fairy tales?
300
The main word, or “real” word, in a word with a suffix and a prefix.
What is the root word or base word?
300
To form an opinion based upon facts found in a story.
What is drawing conclusions?
400
Comparing two or more things using like or as.
What is a simile?
400
The protagonist and antagonist reveal their plan to win their battle. This is where most of the action takes place.
What is climax?
400
A selection written to teach the reader something.
What is informational text?
400
Hints that an author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word.
What is context clues?
400
When the action of a story is interrupted by a scene from the past.
What is flashback?
500
Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things.
What is personification?
500
Information that introduces the reader to the characters and setting.
What is exposition?
500
A fictional story that takes place in the historical past; it includes true facts and information from that time period.
What is historical fiction?
500
To give the meaning of a word.
What is define?
500
Hints in the beginning of a story of what is going to happen to the plot or a character.
What is foreshadowing?
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