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An important part of song lyrics, this literary term means when the end of two words sounds the same.

What is rhyme?

100

This genre of story is acted out on stage. William Shakespeare wrote these.

What is drama?

100

This is a shorter version of the main idea.

What is a gist?

100

This word means how the story feels.

What is a mood?

100

Tony Stark goes by this name while fighting alongside the other Avengers.

Who is Iron Man?

200

This word means a comparison that uses "like" or "as."

What is a simile?

200

This genre of story is passed down through generations through word-of-mouth storytelling, usually to teach a lesson.

What is a fable?

200

This category of story takes place in space or has robots and cyborgs and aliens etc in it.

What is science fiction?

200

This is the opposite of a protagonist; someone trying to stop the main character.

What is an antagonist?

200

The "N.B.A." in NBA Youngboy stands for this.

What is Never Broke Again?

300

This word means when you talk about something like it's a person: "my computer won't cooperate with me."

What is personification?

300

This word means a made-up story that feels like real life.

What is realistic fiction?

300

This is the part of a story where a character remembers something from the past.

What is a flashback?
300

This type of word sounds like the sound it makes, for example, "crash," "splash" etc.

What is onomatopoeia?

300

This social media app, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, is the most popular in the world.

What is TikTok?
400
This word means an educated guess.

What is an inference?

400

This is another word for main character.

What is a protagonist?

400

What it's called when a story is narrated by the main character: "I went to the store and saw my friend" etc.

What is 1st person?
400

This word means an exaggeration: "I had to grade a million billion papers today"

What is hyperbole?

400

This fictional protagonist is the son of Poseidon.

Who is Percy Jackson?

500

These two things make up an inference.

What are background knowledge and information from the text?

500

This word means a comparison that does NOT use "like" or "as."

What is a metaphor?

500

This term means when a story is narrated by a narrator talking about the various characters: "He went to the store and saw his friend"

What is 3rd person?

500

This is a type of writing where everything really happened.

What is non-fiction?

500

This fictional protagonist goes to Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardy.

Who is Harry Potter?