Literary Text
What are the people, animals, or imaginary creatures who take part in the action of a work of literature?
Characters
What is a short account of an event that is usually intended to entertain or make a point?
Anecdote
What is speaking or writing that expresses a position on a problem and supports it with reasons and evidence.
Argument
What is a reference to a famous person, place, event, or work of literature?
Allusion
What is a words dictionary definition?
Denotation
What is the point of greatest interest in a story or play?
Climax
What is the true account of a person’s life, written by another person?
Biography
What is an author's opinion on an issue or topic?
Author's position
What is a form of Japanese poetry in which 17 syllables are arranged in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables?
What is a form of a language that is spoken in a particular place or by a particular group of people?
Dialect
What are the qualities shown by a character?
Character Traits
What is it called when one event brings about, or causes, the other?
Cause and effect
What is the side of an issue that an author favors?
Bias
What is poetry without regular patterns of rhyme and rhythm?
Free Verse
What is a short work of nonfiction that deals with a single subject?
Essay
What is written conversation between two or more characters?
Dialogue
What is the arrangement of events by their order of occurrence?
Chronological Order
What is an error—usually in reasoning?
In poetry, what are words and phrases that appeal to a reader’s five senses.
Imagery
What is to examine something carefully and to judge its value or worth?
Evaluate
What is a brief tale told to illustrate a moral or teach a lesson?
Fable
What is the believability or trustworthiness of a source and the information it provides?
Trustworthy
What is a statement of belief based on evidence, experience, and reasoning?
Conclusion
What is a figure of speech that compares two essentially unlike things at some length and in several ways?
Extended Metaphor
What is a story that has been passed from generation to generation by word of mouth?
Folk Tale