Literature Terms
Reading Strategies
Literary Devices
Parts of Speech
Bonus
100
giving a human qualities to animal or object.
What is Personification
100
something that is proven to be true.
What is Fact
100
Mental pictures that are created with words
What is Imagery
100
Modifies a verb.
What is Adverb
100
a sentence that has two or more independent clauses and is joined by a coordinating conjunction.
What is Compound sentence.
200
is the place of maximum interest and intensity.
What is Climax
200
is a statement expressing a personal feeling or idea and cannot be proved
What is Opinion
200
The repetition of vowels sounds in words.
What is Assonance
200
expresses physical action, mental action, or a state of being.
What is Verbs
200
Are expressions that have meanings different from the meanings of there separate words.
What is Idiom
300
is the struggle between opposing forces
What is Conflict
300
certain actions that cause specific effects
What is Cause and Effect
300
The repetition of beginning consonant sounds in words.
What is Alliteration
300
Tells whom or what the sentence is about.
What is Subject
300
The use of words that sound like objects or actions they describe.
What is Onomatopoeia
400
the place where the story takes place.
What is The Setting
400
a logical guess or conclusion based on evidence.
What is interference
400
Language that uses figures of speech and cannot be taken literally.
What is Figurative Language
400
A group of words that has a subject and a verb but cannot stand-alone.
What is Dependent clause
400
A sentence that contains an independent clause and a dependent clause and uses a subordinating conjunction to show the relationship between the clauses.
What is A complex sentence.
500
a comparison using the signal words LIKE OR AS
What is Simile
500
telling the main ideas of a piece of writing briefly in one's own words, omitting unimportant details.
What is Summarizing
500
A phrase that combines two seemingly contradictory elements.
What is Oxymoron
500
is a word that takes the place of a noun.
What is Pronoun
500
is a word that takes place of a noun.
What is Pronoun
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