Fiction
Non-Fiction
Poetry
Drama
Vocabulary
100

Made up stories/not true.

What is fiction?

100

True stories about real people, places or topics.

What is nonfiction?

100

These are made up of lines and are like paragraphs in poems.

What are stanzas?

100

The group of people who have parts in a drama.

What is the cast of characters?

100

Words that have similar meanings.

What are synonyms?

200

The people/things in a story.

What are characters?

200

A true story that someone writes about someone else.

What is a biography?

200

Words that have the same ending sounds (bat, hat)

What are rhyming words?

200

Where and when the play takes place.

What is setting?

200

Words with opposite meanings.

What are antonyms?

300

Where and when a story takes place.

What is setting?

300

A true story that someone writes about themselves.

What is an autobiography?

300

This kind of poem expresses emotions or feelings, has rhyming words, and sometimes sounds like music.

What is a lyrical poem?

300

These are in the script in parenthesis and tell the actors what to do/how to act on stage.

What are stage directions?

300

When animals/objects talk or act like people.

What is personification?

400

A series of events that form the story in a novel or movie. It's like a roller coaster with character, setting, problem, rising action, climax and resolution.

What is plot?

400

This is what a story is MAINLY about and is supported by details. 

What is main idea?

400

This kind of poem does NOT rhyme.

What is free verse?

400

Plays are divided into these two parts.

What are scenes and acts?

400

Someone in the story who is telling it from their point of view (I, me, we, us).

What is 1st person point of view?

500

The lesson or message an author wants the reader to learn or remember after reading. (Hard work pays off; Be nice to everyone no matter how they look)

What is theme?

500

Pictures, table of contents, graphs, charts, diagrams, captions, etc.

What are text features?

500

Words or phrases poets use to create an imagine in your head using the five sense. These lines APPEAL to your senses.

What is imagery?

500

The people who watch a drama.

Who is the audience?

500

The point of view of a narrator outside the story who is telling the reader what is happening. (they, she, he, them, you)

What is 3rd person point of view?