Genre
Literary Elements
Vocabulary
Key Terms
100
This is writing about real people and events.
What is nonfiction?
100
The main idea of a literary work.
What is theme?
100
This is what you call an aggressive person.
What is an aggressor?
100
This is what you call a person in a story, which can be a real person, an imaginary one, or even an animal.
What is character?
200
This genre is a type of literature that deals with people, places, and events that could not happen in our reality.
What is science fiction?
200
The use of words that seem to say one thing but mean the opposite.
What is irony?
200
This is what you cal a low, one-story house.
What is a bungalow?
200
This is what you call what goes on in a story.
What is action?
300
This writing is imaginative and designed to entertain.
What is fiction?
300
A word or phrase that comes from a particular area.
What is regionalism?
300
This term is something that slows progress such as a four-lane highway that turns into a two-lane highway and your speed slows down or you are stopped altogether.
What is a bottleneck?
300
The teller of the story.
What is the narrator?
400
This writing is usually a story in which the main character solves a crime.
What is a detective story?
400
A literary movement focused on the survival of the fittest against nature.
What is naturalism?
400
This is the term that means you come to a resolution of the story.
What is denouement?
400
A figure of speech that makes a comparison using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
500
This type of writing is often about events that, at the time, seem frightening or confusing. The character does not understand the event's importance right away; only later does he or she understand.
What is turning points?
500
This is an exaggerated look at a situation such as the arms race between the United States and former Soviet Union. The word was presented in the story, "Feeling of Power."
What is a parody?
500
This term means that something is growing smaller, such as the visible part of the moon.
What is the term waning?
500
This is what you call pictures created by words that appeal to the senses.
What is coming-of-age?
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