Fiction
Non-Fiction
Figurative Language
Literary Terms
Genres
100

The character that goes against the protagonist.

Who is the antagonist?

100

Bedbugs are one of the worst household pests. This is an example of fact or opinion.

What is an opinion?

100

These are words that imitate the sound they represent.

What is onomatopoeia?

100

This is the message of a story.

What is the theme?

100

Until I saw the sea

I did not know

that wind

could wrinkle water so.

What is poetry?

200

The hero/main character in a work of literature.

What is the protagonist?

200

Lincoln Middle School is located in La Crosse, Wisconsin. This is an example of fact or opinion.

What is a fact?

200

The crook was as sly as a fox.

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

This genre normally has a crime to solve.

What is a mystery?

300

This is the problem in plot development.

What is the conflict?

300

Highlighting, underlining, and circling are used when a person does this.

What is annotating text?

300

My computer screamed before it died a brutal death.

What is personification?

300

This is a paragraph in a poem.

What is a stanza?

300

A story that 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

A type of text where a person writes about their life. 

What is an autobiography?

400

Choose the best answer. Which of the following is an inanimate object that can be personified? A. a star B. a dog C. a student

What is a star?

400

There are at least four types of conflict.

What are character vs. character, character vs. self, character vs. nature, character vs. supernatural, character vs. technology, and character vs. society?

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

These words have opposite meanings.

What are antonyms?

500

My niece, Laurel, is a ray of sunshine.

What is a metaphor?

500

These are the five author's purposes for writing.

What is to inform, to entertain, to persuade, to describe, and to explain?

500

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

What is historical fiction?