Definitions
Poetry
Drama and Plot Elements
Figurative Language
Informational Texts
100
An inference is...?
What is a good guess?
100
What is a stanza?
What is a poetry paragraph or a group of two or more lines?
100
What is dialogue?
What are words spoken by the characters?
100
What is a simile?
What is a comparison between two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"?
100
What is a title?
What is the name that is attached to a piece of writing?
200
What is dialect?
What is the form of language spoken in a particular place by a particular culture?
200
Identify the rhyme scheme: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
What is abab?
200
What are stage directions?
What are unspoken instructions about how the drama is to be performed?
200
What is a metaphor?
What is a comparison of two unlike things without the words "like" or "as"?
200
What is a text feature?
What is an element that helps organize or call attention to important information?
300
What is diction?
What is word choice?
300
What is end rhyme?
What are rhyming words that come at the end of lines?
300
Define climax and name the climax of Sorry, Wrong Number.
What is the point of greatest tension and when Mrs. Stevenson is murdered?
300
What is personification?
What is giving human qualities to an animal, object, or idea?
300
What is a footnote?
What is a note at the bottom of a page which provides definitions or additional information?
400
What is a folktale?
What is a story passed down by word of mouth from generation to generation?
400
How many lines does a traditional sonnet have?
What is 14?
400
What is the name of the last event of a plot?
What is the resolution?
400
What type of figurative language is in the following sentence? And pluck till time and times are done, The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.
What is metaphor?
400
What is a sidebar?
What is a box that appears alongside or within an article to provide additional information related to the text?
500
What is an objective summary?
What is a paragraph that tells what something is about but does not include your opinion?
500
What is the rhyme scheme of a traditional Shakespearean sonnet?
What is abab, cdcd, efef, gg?
500
Fill in the blank. In a plot map, once the conflict sets the plot in motion, the events that occur are called the __________________.
What is the rising action?
500
What type of figurative language is in the following sentence? When the lightning danced across the sky, I was happy.
What is personification?
500
Name at least two kinds of graphic aids.
What are maps, charts, diagrams, graphs, photographs, etc.?