Category 1
Category 2
Category 3
Category 4
Category 5
100
genre
What is a type of literature
100
author's purpose
What is why an author writes
100
drama
What is a work meant to be performed on stage. Has characters and stage directions
100
inference
What is a decision based on text evidence and your own knowledge
100
rhyme scheme
What is pattern of rhyming in a poem
200
act
What is a large section of a play
200
falling action
What are events in a story that happen after the climax
200
cast
What is a group of actors
200
line break
What is an empty space between lines of poetry
200
rhythm/meter
What is the beat of a poem
300
first person
What is a person in the story is telling it....uses words like: I, my, me, and we
300
autobiography
What is a story about someone's life written by that person
300
dialogue
What are words that are directly spoken
300
metaphor
What is something that compares two things NOT using like or as
300
setting
What is where and when a story takes place
400
alliteration
What is same starting sound
400
fact
What is something that can be proven
400
climax
What is the most important part of the story
400
poetry
What is a type of literature that can have stanzas, line breaks, meter/rhythm, and or rhyme
400
stage directions
What tells feelings, settings, or actions in a play
500
third person
What is a person outside the story is telling it....uses words like: he, she, they
500
biography
What is a story about someone's life written by an author
500
conclusion
What is the final event in a story
500
resolution
What is how the story ended up
500
theme
What is the overall message in a story
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