Literary Terms
Literary Terms
Writing Skills
Writing Skills
Social Studies Terms
100
SETTING
What is time and place?
100
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
What is a story of a person's life written by that person?
100
PROPER NOUN
What is a special person, place, or thing?
100
INTRODUCTION, 3 REASON PARAGRAPHS, CONCLUSION
What are the 5 parts of the GED Essay?
100
DEMOCRACY
What is a form of government that practices equality of rights?
200
IRONY
What is the literary device the author uses to say one thing while meaning the opposite?
200
BIOGRAPHY
What is a factual record of a person's life written by another person?
200
COMMON NOUN
What is a person, place, or thing that is not capitalized?
200
CONTRACTION
What is a word that is made up of two words with some letters left out and an apostrophe inserted?
200
CONSTITUTION
What is the "law of our land"?
300
PERSONIFICATION
What is giving human characteristics to inanimate objects?
300
DRAMA
What is a category of writing using actors, stage directions, and dialogue?
300
FRAGMENT
What is an incomplete sentence?
300
PARAGRAPH
What is a group of sentences that work together to form one idea?
300
BILL OF RIGHTS
What are the first ten amendments of the Constitution?
400
DIALOGUE
What is a conversation between two people?
400
MAIN IDEA
What is the most important idea in a paragraph or literary work?
400
CONCLUSION
What is the last part of a piece of writing that summarizes the essay?
400
POSSESSIVE NOUN
What is a noun that shows that something is owned/
400
CIVIL WAR
What is another name for the war between the states?
500
CONFLICT
What is an internal or external problem that a character must solve?
500
FICTION
What is a category of writing that tells about events that happen to imaginary characters?
500
INTRODUCTION
What do you call the first paragraph in the GED essay?
500
COMMA
What is a type of punctuation used to separate a series of clauses or words?
500
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Who was the president during the Civil War?
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