Parts of Speech
Story Elements I
Story Elements II
Terms I
Terms II
100
a word that indicates action or a state of being
What is a verb?
100
the struggle of a story
What is the conflict?
100
the core message or central idea
What is theme?
100
comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
direct comparison of two unlike things
What is a metaphor?
200
a word that modifies a noun
What is an adjective?
200
an interruption of the story that provides readers with past information
What is flashback?
200
leading character or hero
What is the protagonist?
200
something standing for or representing something else
What is a symbol?
200
the emotional feeling or atmospheric tone of the story
What is mood?
300
the noun in a sentence that directly receives the action of the verb
What is a direct object?
300
events leading to the climax
What is the rising action?
300
the opening of a story which provides an explanation or gives necessary background information
What is the exposition?
300
extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
300
word that sounds like what it represents
What is onomatopoeia?
400
a, an, or the... also known as noun pointers
What is an article?
400
technique by which the author hints at future events
What is foreshadowing?
400
when the reader is aware of something the characters are not
What is dramatic irony?
400
giving human traits to non-human objects
What is personification?
400
a reasonable conclusion made about something based on clues or facts
What is inference?
500
a form of verb used to modify a noun
What is a participle?
500
saying the opposite of what is meant
What is verbal irony?
500
an event occurs that is the opposite of what was expected
What is situational irony?
500
repetition of a sound in a group of words
What is alliteration?
500
WORTH 1000 points!!! substituting a term closely associated with another for the original term
What is metonymy?
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