A comparison of 2 different items using "like" or "as".
What is a similie?
100
A genre that is set in the modern present with human characters and is based on the premise that the story's plot could actually happen in the real world.
What is realistic fiction?
100
The standpoint from which a story is told.
What is Point of View?
100
A struggle between character and his feelings, conscience or fear.
What is man vs. self?
100
Interrupting the plot of the story to recreate an incident of earlier time.
What is flashback?
200
A comparison of 2 items.
What is a metaphor?
200
A genre that is set in the past and involves real people, places or significant events from history.
What is historical fiction?
200
Told from the viewpoint of one of the characters using the pronouns "I" "We".
What is first person?
200
A struggle (mental or physical) between 2 characters.
What is man vs. man?
200
The anxiety a reader feels about what may happen next in the story.
What is suspense?
300
An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true.
What is an hyperbole?
300
A genre that is set in the future and based on the impact of real, potential or imagined technology.
What is science fiction?
300
The narrator is an outside observer that focuses on the thoughts and feelings of only one character.
What is third person limited?
300
A struggle between a character and mother nature.
What is man vs. nature?
300
An ending to a section, chapter or book that leaves the reader in suspense.
What is cliffhanger?
400
Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.
What is personification?
400
A genre that contains magical elements such as nonexistent world, talking animals and other creatures, and objects or people with superpowers.
What is fantasy.
400
The narrator is an outside observer who can tell the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in a story.
What is third person omniscient?
400
A struggle between a character and the laws/beliefs of a group.
What is man vs. society?
400
Hints or clues suggesting what may happen later in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
500
A group of words whose collective meaning is quite different from their individual, literal meaning.
What is an idiom?
500
fairytales, tall tales, legends, myths, fables
What is the genre of folktales?
500
The narrator reports the facts of a narrator as a seemingly neutral and impersonal outside observer.