Literary Elements
Parts of Speech
Figurative Language
More Literary Terms
Genres
100

The character that goes against the protagonist.

Who is an antagonist?

100

Part of speech in italics:

He walked around the corner. 

What is preposition.

100

These are words that imitate the sound they represent.

What is an onomatopoeia?

100

This is the moral of the story.

What is theme?

100

This genre can be divided into further genres, such as epic, lyric, narrative, satirical, or prose. It experiments with story form, language, rhythm and even punctuation.

What is poetry?

200

The hero/main character in a work of literature.

What is a protagonist?

200

Part of speech in italics.

Kind people are often rewarded.

What is adjective?

200

The crook was as sly as a fox.

What is simile?

200

This is considered the turning point of the story/the most exciting part of the story.

What is the climax?

200

This genre normal has a crime to solve.

What is a mystery?

300

This is the problem in plot development.

What is conflict?

300

Part of speech in italics.

My sister answered the questions intelligently.

What is an adverb?

300

My computer screamed before it died a brutal death.

What is personification?

300

The attitude a writer takes towards the subject or the reader.

What is tone?

300

A story the deals with alien cloning.

What is science fiction?

400

This tells you the setting and the main characters that are introduced at the beginning of the story.

What is the exposition?

400

Part of speech in italics.

Fast runners won all the awards at the track meet.

What is an adjective?

400

The repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words.

What is Alliteration?

400

The overall feeling or atmosphere created by a work of literature.

What is mood?

400

A story about a girl and her pet unicorn.

What is fantasy?

500

This is the final part of the novel- the ending of the story.

What is the resolution?

500

Part of speech in italics.

Check the score, Tom.

What is a verb?

500

My niece Laurel is a ray sunshine.

What is a metaphor?

500

What happens in a story; the chain of events that make up the story.

What is the plot?

500

This is a story about the Holocaust but it has made-up characters that were not real.

What is historical fiction?