A piece of writing that usually has figurative language and that is written in separate lines that often have a repeated rhythm and sometimes rhyme.
What is a poem.
100
When you use a word or phrase that does not have its normal everyday, literal meaning.
What is figurative language.
100
A piece of writing that tells a story and is performed on a stage.
What is a drama.
100
How the story is organized or the framework of the story.
What is structure.
100
The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of each or most of the words in a sentence.
What is alliteration.
200
A poem made up of 14 lines that rhyme in a fixed pattern.
What is a sonnet.
200
A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as.
What is simile.
200
In drama, a ____ is a unit of action, often a subdivision of an act.
What is a scene.
200
The moral message, or lesson of the story.
What is theme.
200
The comparison of one thing to another without the use of like or as.
What is metaphor.
300
A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.
What is a Haiku
300
A word, which imitates the natural sounds of a thing.
What is onomatopoeia.
300
A long, usually serious speech that a character in a play makes to an audience and that reveals the character's thoughts.
What is a soliloquy.
300
The events that make up a story or the main part of a story. These events relate to each other in a pattern or a sequence (Exposition, Rising Action, Conflict, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution).
What is plot sequence.
300
While reading a fiction or non-fiction book, readers see and experience the events and feelings about the characters through a certain point of view, which is called a _______.
What is perspective.
400
In poetry, the ____ is the person speaking, not necessarily the author of the poem.
What is the speaker.
400
An extreme exaggeration used to make a point.
What is hyperbole.
400
The time, place, and conditions in which the action of a book, movie, etc., takes place.
What is the setting.
400
A person who tells a story; in literature, the voice that an author takes on to tell a story.
What is the narrator.
400
To study (something) closely and carefully : to learn the nature and relationship of the parts of (something) by a close and careful examination.
What is analyze.
500
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza.
500
A figure of speech where human qualities are given to animals, objects or ideas.
What is personification.
500
The angle of considering things, which shows us the opinion, or feelings of the individuals involved in a situation.
What is point of view.
500
What the text is mainly about.
What is central idea.
500
An expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but that has a separate meaning of its own.