Literary Terms
Poetry Terms
Stuff
Types of Nonfiction
Other Stuff
100
This term means an extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole
100
This term is a cluster of lines in a poem with a break at the end.
What is a stanza?
100
A short, often one sentence summary that covers the idea of a story.
What is the main idea?
100
This type of nonfiction is a story someone writes about someone else's life.
What is a biography?
100
This term is something can be proven.
What is a fact?
200
This term means to give human qualities to a non living object or animal
What is personification?
200
This term means that there are rhyming words on the end of each line of a poem.
What is an end rhyme?
200
An opinion formed based on the words and actions of the characters that applies to the world around us.
What is a theme?
200
This type of nonfiction is a story someone writes about a short period of time in their own life.
What is a memoir?
200
This term is based on people's thoughts or feelings and CAN NOT be proven.
What is an opinion?
300
This term means to repeat for emphasis (to make a point)
What is repetition?
300
This is the name for the author of the poem.
Who is the poet?
300
This type of story usually uses animals with human personalities to teach small children a lesson. EX: The Tortise and The Hare.
What is a fable?
300
This type of nonfiction is a story someone writes about their own life from start to where they are now.
What is an autobiography?
300
This word is the small word we substitute in for words like convey, illustrates, indicates, appears, etc...
What is show?
400
This term means to use a comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
400
What is a poem that has three lines and the syllable pattern of 5,7,5
What is a haiku?
400
This type of story usually has its characters going on a quest and explains how something comes to exist.
What is a myth?
400
This type of nonfiction is an opinion people write, often about political views or opinions on culture.
What is an editorial?
400
This is an educated guess based on the knowledge you have.
What is an inference?
500
This term means to direct the actions and emotions of the actors on a stage.
What are stage directions?
500
Entire poems can be written as a comparison without ever using the terms like or as. What is the term?
What is a metaphor?
500
This type of story is completely made up.
What is fiction?
500
This type of nonfiction is written to be spoken in front of a large audience.
What is a speech?
500
This is something that can be seen or read in a story and does not require a guess to be made.
What is an observation?
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