Capitalization
Punctuation
Word Position
Line Length
100
Comparing two unlike things using the words like or as.
Simile
100
I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse.
Metaphor
100
What is one point of view that we have discussed?
First Person
Third Person Limited
Third Person Omniscient
100
This genre includes mystery, romance, and comedy.
Fiction
200
What is the rhyme scheme in this poem?
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Sugar is sweet
And so are you
ABCB
200
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.
Personification
200
The flame of the candle danced in the wind.
Personification
200
Name one of the five things an author uses to build characterization in a character.
Words
Feelings
Thoughts
Choices
Actions
200
This genre includes biography and autobiography.
Non-Fiction
300
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December.
A magical thing
And sweet to remember.
"We are nearer to Spring
Than we were in September,"
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December
ABAB ABAB
300
An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true.
Hyperbole
300
It's going to take forever to get to school!
Hyperbole
300
What are the 3 types of author's purpose?
Persuade
Inform
Entertain
300
This is word choice which includes neutral, positive, and negative connotations.
Diction.
400
A group of lines of poetry (like a paragraph)
A stanza
400
A group of words whose collective meaning is quite different from their individual, literal meaning.
Idiom
400
You need to get that chip off your shoulder.
Idiom
400
What is the central idea or message of a story called?
Theme
400
This is taking two opposite words and bringing them together as one idea. Example: Jumbo Shrimp
Oxymoron
500
What is they rhyme scheme of this poem?
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, "It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!
AABBA
500
A comparison of two unlike things that says that one thing is the other.
Metaphor
500
Mrs. Strickland is as busy as a bee when she teaches.
Simile
500
What is the background of the story? This includes the time and location.
Setting
500
Name one external conflict in the book "No More Dead Dogs".
Wallace vs. Mr. Fogelman
Wallace vs. Cavanaugh
Wallace vs. Rachel Turner
Wallace vs. newspaperman (Parker Schmidt)