Types of Passages
Literary Devices
What's the Word? 1
What's the Word? 2
Poetry
100

A type of nonfiction passage that gives you facts.

What is informational text?

100

A device used to hint at what might happen in the future.

What is Foreshadowing?

100

I am going there ___.

To or too?

What is too?

100

I ___ him on the road on my way to school.

Passed or past?

What is passed?

100

A type of poetry that is a total 12 syllables long and is usually about nature.

What is Haiku?

200

A type of literature that has a plot.

What is a narrative?

200

A literary device used to recall something that happened in the past.

What is flashback?

200

When she left it had a huge ____ on me.

Effect or affect?

What is effect?

200

He is eating lunch over ____ 

There, their, or they're?

What is there?

200

A device used in poetry that helps the reader experience the poem through one or more of their senses.

What is imagry?

300

A factual story written by someone about themselves.

What is an Autobiography?

300

This part of the plot leads up to the climax of the story.

What is rising action?

300

____ rude! 

Your or you're?

What is you're?

300

I have to go ____ a tunnel to get home. 

Threw or through?

What is through?

300

A type of poetry that does not follow any rules.

What is free verse?

400

A type of fictional story that is realistic but is set in the past.

What is historical fiction?

400

A device in literature where an object represents an idea.

What is symbolism?

400

I ___ you for who you are.

Except or accept?

What is accept?

400

I have to decide ___ or not to eat at Taco Bell.

Whether or weather?

What is whether?

400

A poem that is usually long and tells a story.

What is a narrative poem?

500

A journal or diary would most likely be written in which point of view?

What is first person?

500

If you came across this phrase in a book:  "May the force be with you!" What kind of literary device is this?

What is allusion?

500

The dog is eating ___ food.

Its or it's?

What is its?

500

My sweater is way too ____ 

Loose or lose?

What is loose?

500

Two lines of poetry that rhyme and form a single unit.

What is a couplet?

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