A joke using words that sound alike but have different meanings. For example, I was struggling to figure out how lightning works and then it struck me.
a. haiku
b. pun
c. poem
What is b. pun?
100
A true story about someone written by them is called:
a. biography
b. personification
c. autobiography
What is c. autobiography?
100
An informative paper that is usually folded into trifolds:
a. brochure
b. thesis paper
c. article
What is a. brochure?
100
A book containing many illustrations:
a. picture book
b. play book
c. art book
What is a. picture book?
100
A simple story used to teach a moral or lesson is called:
a. paradox
b. parable
c. play
What is b. parable?
200
A word representing the sound it makes such as: boing, beep, drip drop.
a. onomatopoeia
b. simile
c. personification
What is a. onomatopoeia?
200
Giving a human quality to something that is not human. For example: The suns rays tiptoed across the field.
a. pun
b. simile
c. personification
What is c. personification?
200
What is a document written to support someones ideas?
a. bibliography
b. thesis paper
c. moral tale
What is b. thesis paper?
200
What is detailed information telling how something is to be done?
a. glossary
b. instruction
c. table of contents
What is b. instruction?
200
Usually books or articles written by someone who does not have first hand knowledge of the event is called:
a. secondary source
b. autobiography
c. research
What is a. secondary source?
300
Comparing two things using like or as. For example, he is as hungry as an elephant.
a. onomatopoeia
b. simile
c. irony
What is b. simile?
300
What is visually descriptive language?
a. imagery
b. imagination
c. picture
What is a. imagery?
300
The words at the top of a page in a dictionary that tells what words are on that page:
a. title
b. heading
c. guide letters
What is c. guide letters?
300
What the author is trying to say in an informational text:
a. intent
b. content
c. theme
What is the a. intent?
300
What is something made up of two statements that seem impossible as the same time? For example: a jumbo shrimp.
a. parable
b. paradox
c. contrast
What is b. paradox
400
A poem of 14 lines that follows a rhyming pattern:
a. haiku
b. sonnet
c. limerick
What is b. sonnet?
400
The viewpoint of a character writing about themselves:
a. first person
b. second person
c. narrative
What is a. first person?
400
To form an idea of the amount or value of something:
a. assess
b. annotate
c. guess
What is a. assess
400
Gives information about a discount or item on sale:
a. table of contents
b. biography
c. coupon
What is c. coupon?
400
What is an ideal example that other things are patterned on? For example, light, dark, hope, despair.
a. thesis
b. archetype
c. paradox
What is b. archetype?
500
Writing from the point of view that talks about characters as he/she/they.
a. first person
b. third person
c. second person
What is b. third person?
500
When the narrator tells the story to another character it is called:
a. first person
b. second person
c. third person
What is b. second person?
500
A list of books and articles used to write a paper:
a. biography
b. annotated bibliography
c. non-fiction
What is b. annotated bibliography?
500
What is denying the truth and stating the opposite?
a. contradict
b. convincing
c. conversation
What is a. contradict?
500
Attributing human emotion to nature or inanimate objects. For example, The brooding sky loomed over them menacingly.
a. paradox
b. parable
c. pathetic fallacy