Vocabulary
Prefixes
Genres
Literary Techniques
Potluck
100
A Brief Story
What is Anecdote?
100
The opposite of or againt
What is ANTI?
100
A story handed down from the past.
What is a Legend?
100
The feeling the author is trying to create.
What is Mood?
100
To give a hint or suggestion of what is to come.
What is Foreshawdowing?
200
The lines in poetry
What are Stanzas?
200
Before
What is PRE?
200
A writing about his/her own life. May be exaggerated.
What is a Memoir?
200
The main point or life lesson the author wants you to know.
What is Theme?
200
A short story with a moral.
What is a Parable?
300
Words that are pronounced the same but have different meanings.
What are Homophones?
300
Not
What is UN?
300
Stories that help explain why things are the way they are.
What are Folk Tales?
300
Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.
What is Personification?
300
To create images.
What is Imagery?
400
A word formed by the first letters of other words.
What is Acronym?
400
Away from, out of
What is EX?
400
Contains story elements that are not real.
What is a Fantasy?
400
Making fun or ridiculing something.
What is Satire?
400
Figurative Language used to compare to unlike things using "like" or "as."
What is a Simile?
500
Suggesting a different meaning that what the word actually means.
What is Connotation?
500
inside
What is INTRA?
500
Contains science, technology, and time travel.
What is Science Fiction?
500
To refer to something that has happened in the past.
What is Flashback?
500
When the author writes using the pronouns he, she, they, or it. The author also knows all thoughts and feelings of all characters.
What is Third Person Ominiscient.
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