Words with base clues
Slightly used words
Rarely used words
Elements of literature
Figurative language
100

beyond what is normal or natural.

What is Preternaturally?

100

in a way that involves physical strength, effort, or energy; strenuously.

What is Vigorously?

100

a person who favors formal withdrawal from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.

What is a Secessionist?

100

A Story Line

What is a plot?

100

Compares using "like" or "as"

What is a Simile?

200
  • the quality or character of being periodic; the tendency to recur at intervals.

What is Periodicity?

200

an outline of a solid object as cast by its shadow

What is a Silhouette?

200

mix; blend

What is Commingled?

200

Tells where and when the story takes place

What is a Setting

200

Compares two items by stating one is the other

What is a metaphor?

300

show, express, or direct through movement

What is Gesticulated?

300

physically or materially strong

What is Stout?

300

extend beyond or above a surface

What is protruded?

300

Person or thing involved in the story

What is a character?

300

An exaggeration in describing someone/something 

What is a Hyperbole?

400

assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering.

What is Imperious?

400

a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

What is Sentinel?

400

keenly distressing to the mind or feelings

What is poignant? 

400

Tells the feeling and emotion the story communicates

What is the mood?

400

a common used expression not meaning literally what it says

What is an Idiom?

500

a decrease in loudness

What is diminuendo

500

Tells the message the author wishes to communicate

What is the theme?

500

A form of “word play” in which words have a double meaning

What is a pun?

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