Types of Writing
Parts of a Story
Literary Devices
Sound Devices
Figurative Language
100
How literature is categorized based on literary conventions
What is Genre
100
This is where a story takes place in time and location
What is Setting
100
When an author intentionally makes a reference to another work, such as another piece of literature, a piece of artwork, or a time, place or person.
What is Allusion
100
When words that sound alike are paired together or near each other.
What is Rhyme
100
Compares two things without using like or as.
What is Metaphor
200
A type of literary art form where writers use figurative language to get the point of their subject across
What is Poetry
200
Protagonist, antagonist, hero/heroine are the people that move the plot along and the reason that many readers stay with a story
What is Character
200
Words used to evoke pictures in the minds of the readers.
What is Imagery
200
Repetition of consonant sounds at the beining of words.
What is Alliteration
200
Compares two things using like or as.
What is Simile
300
A type of narrative literature that contains imaginary characters and events.
What is Fiction
300
This is how the story is told by the narrator or author; either first, second, or third person.
What is Point of view
300
An exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole
300
Words that represent sounds.
What is Onomatopeia
300
This is where animals or inanimate ojects are given human qualities.
What is Personification
400
A type of literature written about someone by another person.
What is Biography
400
Is the central idea of the story, which is often abstract (greed, love, coming of age). Also known as the lesson.
What is Theme
400
Words used that often mean something different or the opposite of what they mean.
What is Irony
400
A combination of accented and unaccented syllables which often form a pattern.
What is Meter
400
Type of phrase where the meanings cannot be inferred by the literal meaning of the words.
What is Idiom
500
A type of narrative that often involves human suffering, including death, in the storty.
What is Tragedy
500
Words used to express how the author feels about the text.
What is Tone
500
Happens when the storyteller or narrator builds excitement in a scene, often prior to the climax.
What is Suspense
500
Pattern of words or phrases that repeats througout a literary work.
What is Refrain
500
An expression intended for a humorous or rhetorical effect by exploiting different meanings of words
What is Pun
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