A nonfiction text in which the story of a real person's life is written and narrated by another person.
What is a biography?
100
An individual, usually a person or an animal, in the text.
What is a character?
100
An imagined story set in the real world that portrays life as it could be lived today.
What is realistic fiction?
100
The main thought of subject of a text.
What is the topic?
100
To examine in order to note similarities and differences; to consider or describe as similar.
What is compare?
200
A type of writing that uses compact language, pattern (verse), and rhythm to express feelings and ideas.
What is a poem?
200
The written conversation within literature; often used to reel characters' thoughts and feelings, and to advance the plot. Also, the lines spoken by a charter in a drama.
What is dialogue?
200
A type of literature that deals with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets. The plot often hinges on a puzzling situation or event that is resolved at the end of the text.
What is a mystery?
200
The intentional communication by an author through their writing, often to persuade people to believe in something or to entertain.
What is author's purpose?
200
To compare two persons or things to show the differences between them.
What is contrast?
300
An imagined story set in the real world that portrays life as it might have been lived in the past.
What is historical fiction?
300
The time and place a literary text takes place.
What is setting?
300
A specific type of literature often represented through performance.
What is drama?
300
The angle from which a story is told- usually the first person or third person.
What is point of view?
300
A small part of a whole text; contains specific information about the main idea or theme.
What is detail?
400
A biographical text in which the story of a person's life is written and narrated by that person.
What is an autobiography?
400
The events and actions, the conflict, the resolution, and the order in which this information is presented in a literary text.
What is plot?
400
Literature initially passed down in the oral tradition, later written and published, including: folk tales, fairy tales, fables, legends, epics, ballads, and myths.
What is traditional literature?
400
The way in which an author chooses and arranges words to create a meaningful text.
What is style?
400
Something that shows, proves, or gives reason for thinking, comprehension, and understanding.
What is evidence?
500
An imagined story that features characters and events that could not exist in the real world, featuring technology and scientific advances that will occur in the future or may seem impossible.
What is science fiction?
500
The central idea, concept, or message that the author conveys in a text. The underlying big ideas or messages of a story.
What is theme?
500
*DOUBLE POINTS*
An imagined story that features characters and events that could not exist in the real world, often explaining the beginnings of the world, nature, natural phenomena, or human behavior.
What is a myth?
500
*DOUBLE POINTS*
The emotional atmosphere of a text developed by an author; specific details that draw on the emotions and senses.
What is mood?
500
A shortened version of a text, containing only the main points and ideas.