Literature Day
The person who writes a book.
Author
The time and place where a story happens.
Setting
A genre filled with magic, mythical creatures, and imaginary worlds.
Fantasy
A pig named Wilbur and a clever spider form a touching friendship.
Charlotte’s Web
Which continent is both a country and a continent?
Australia
The person telling the story.
Narrator
A comparison using “like” or “as.”
Simile
This type of story takes place in the future and often includes technology, space, or robots.
Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
A boy wizard attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Harry Potter
What begins with “E,” ends with “E,” but only contains one letter?
An envelope
This punctuation mark is used when someone is speaking in a story.
"Quotation Marks"
The message or lesson of a story.
Theme
A short, made-up story meant to teach a moral lesson, often using animals as characters.
Fable
A cat wearing a striped hat brings chaos — and fun — on a rainy day.
The Cat in the Hat
What can you catch but never throw?
A cold
The invention of this machine by Johannes Gutenberg in the 1400s changed how books were made and shared.
The Printing Press
The turning point or most exciting moment in a story.
Climax
A type of writing that explains facts or real information instead of telling a made-up story.
Nonfiction
A hungry creature eats through fruit, cake, and more before turning into a butterfly.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
What has hands but can’t clap?
When year was Literature Day first celebrated?
September 8th, 1967 (67!!!!!!!!)
Giving human qualities to something nonhuman.
Personification
This genre tells stories that could really happen in real life, but the characters and events are made up. (2 Words)
Realistic Fiction
A dystopian story where teens fight for survival on live television.
The Hunger Games
What has a head and a tail but no body?
A Coin