Genres
Author Choice
Figurative Language
Grab Bag
Story Elements
100
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
What is Fantasy?
100
The author's purpose for writing a comedy.
What is to entertain?
100
It's raining cats and dogs.
What are idioms?
100
This annual publication includes calendars with weather forecasts, astronomical information, tide tables, and other related information.
What is an Almanac?
100
This is where a story takes place.
What is the setting?
200
The Diary of Anne Frank
What is historical fiction?
200
The author's purpose for writing a biography
What is to inform?
200
The tree whispered in the gentle breeze.
What is personification?
200
We use this publication to find a word's spelling, pronunciation, definitions, origin, forms, and part of speech.
What is a dictionary?
200
People, creatures and animals in the story are these
What are characters?
300
The Lord of the Rings
What is science fiction?
300
The author's purpose for writing an advertisement
What is persuade?
300
He's a tiger about doing the yard work.
What is a metaphor?
300
This os often found at the back of a book, as a list of words used in that text and a short explanation of the word's meaning.
What is a glossary?
300
The problem faced by the characters
What is the plot?
400
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
What is poetry?
400
The point of view evidenced by these words (not in quotes) I worried about what to do next, so I did nothing.
What is first person?
400
The soothing sound of songbirds signaled spring's arrival.
What is alliteration?
400
An alphabetical list of topics, people, or titles. giving the location of where they are mentioned in a text.
What is an index?
400
This is when the conflict is resolved
What is climax?
500
Paul Bunyan
What is a tall tale?
500
A character in a work of fiction who is presented as telling the story and who refers to himself or herself as I.
Who is the narrator?
500
The water sparkled like diamonds.
What is a simile?
500
A reference work offering comprehensive information on all or specialized areas of knowledge.
What is an encyclopedia?
500
This is the way the events are ordered
What is sequence?
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