Sentence Types
Figurative Language
Point of View
Miscellaneous
Literary Stories
100
This type of sentence contains one independent clause.
What is a simple sentence?
100
Comparing two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
These pronouns reveal when the story is in first-person point of view.
What are "I" and "me?"
100
Another way to say the building blocks of a sentence are "nouns" and "verbs."
What are subjects and predicates?
100
This story taught us that it is necessary to change traditions.
What is "The Lottery?"
200
This type of sentence contains one independent and one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
200
Giving human qualities to an object.
What is personification?
200
When the reader does not have access to a character's thoughts, we must infer what they are thinking based on these.
What are the character's actions?
200
Language that describes how something looks, sounds, smells, tastes, or feels.
What is sensory language or imagery?
200
This story taught us that finding your destiny can be confusing and must happen on its own.
What is Bless Me, Ultima?
300
This type of sentence contains two independent clauses.
What is a compound sentence?
300
Comparing two unlike things.
What is a metaphor?
300
The narrator the main character of the story.
What is first-person point of view?
300
When a reader makes an educated guess about the story based on what they have read and what they already know.
What is an inference?
300
This story taught us to not trust people who are untrustworthy.
What is "Brer Possum's Dilema?"
400
A compound sentence uses this type of conjunction to join its clauses (FANBOYS).
What is a coordinating conjunction?
400
Exaggerating somethign to prove a point.
What is hyperbole?
400
The narrator is NOT the main character and the reader has access to ALL character's thoughts and feelings.
What is third person omniscient point of view?
400
The message about life or human nature that the author wants me learn while reading.
What is the theme?
400
This story taught us to stand up for what is right even when you're being treated unfairly.
What is "The Scholarship Jacket?"
500
A complex sentence uses this type of conjunction to join its clauses (AAAWWUBBIS)
What is a subordinating conjunction?
500
A word that is pronounced like it sounds.
What is an onomatopoeia?
500
The narrator is NOT the main character and the reader has access to ONE character's thoughts and feelings.
What is third person limited point of view?
500
When a writer provides hints that suggest future events in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
500
This story taught us that bragging about your own strengths can sometimes lead to disappointment.
What is "Old Jim Croaker Jumps Over the Moon?"
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