Fiction
Non-Fiction
Figurative Language
Literary Terms
Genres
100

The character that goes against the protagonist.

Who is an antagonist?

100

A fact in the form of a number that shows information about something

What is a statistic?

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

Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

What is free verse poem?

200

When and where the story takes place.

What is the setting?

200

The available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.

What is evidence?

200

The crook was as sly as a fox. This is an example of what type of figurative language?

What is a simile?

200

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

What is the climax?

200

A nonfiction work written by an individual about their own life.

What is a memoir?

300

The feeling a word evokes.

What is connotation?

300

These help you to read a piece of informational text. They can be captions, sidebars, bold words, etc.

What are text features?

300

My computer screamed before it died a brutal death. This is an example of what type of figurative language?

What is personification?

300

This is a paragraph in a poem.

What is a stanza?

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

What are the three types of rhetorical appeals?

What are Ethos, Pathos and Logos.

400

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

What is alliteration?

400

The are the two main types of conflict?

What are internal and an external conflict?

400

A genre of writing that takes a position on a debatable issue.

What is argumentative essay?

500

The dictionary definition of a word.

What is denotation?

500

What are the four main types of author's purpose?

What are to persuade, inform, express or entertain?

500

Is a figure of speech that directly compares two unrelated things by stating that one is the other.

What is a metaphor?

500

What are the five stages of plot?

What are the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution?

500

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

What is historical fiction?