Poetry Review
Fiction & Non-Fiction
Figurative Language
Genres
Review
100

  • Rhythm

  • Sound

  • Imagery

  • Form

Poetry Elements

100
The story of one's life, written by that person
What is autobiography?
100
words that imitate the sound they represent
What is onomatopoeia?
100
Fiction that is set in the past.
What is historical fiction?
100

Reading closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it.

Close Reading

200

  • Rhyme

  • Repetition

  • Alliteration

  • Onomatopoeia

Sound Devices

200
The person in a work of literature.
What is character?
200
The crook was as sly as fox.
What is simile?
200
Verse that uses sounds, rhythm, and word choice to share ideas.
What is poetry?
200

Details that an author states directly in the text.  

Explicit Details

300

When poets repeat words, phrases, or lines in a poem.

Repetition

300
the order in which events happen in time
What is a chronological order?
300
My computer hates me.
What is personification?
300
Fiction that deals with science and technology, and adventuring into the unknown.
What is science fiction?
300

Something that is not directly stated, but the reader understands it anyway through other clues in the text.

Implicit 

400

The repetition of the first consonant sound in words, as in the nursery rhyme “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”

Alliteration

400
The story takes place in North Carolina in the 1980's. This description is an example of...
What is setting?
400

This poem is an example of:

An emerald is as green as grass,                                 A ruby red as blood;                                                   A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;                         flint lies in the mud.
 

simile

400
The author creates a magical world where anything can happen.
What is fantasy?
400

The series of events, or structure, of the story.  It answers the question, “what happens?”

Plot

500

The use of words to create pictures, or images, in your mind.

Imagery

500

  • True story about a PART of a person’s life

  • Written by THEMSELVES

Memoir

500

This poem is an example of: 

The Night is a big black cat                                       The moon is her topaz eye,                               The stars are the mice she hunts at night,               In the field of the sultry sky.



Metaphor

500
A folktale that teaches a moral or lesson, often with animals as characters.
What is a fable?
500

This poem is an example of: 

Mister Sun Wakes up at dawn,                                    Puts his golden Slippers on,                                       Climbs the summer Sky at noon,                       Trading places With the moon.

Personification

M
e
n
u