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Literary Genres
Could be anything!
Figurative Language
Elements of Plot
Sound Devices
100
The story of a person's life written by that person
What is autobiography?
100
Gives human characteristics to animals or objects
What is personification?
100
Extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
100
When and where a story takes place
What is setting?
100
Repetition of sounds at the ends of words
What is rhyme?
200
Literature meant to be performed by actors
What is drama?
200
The perspective from which a story is told
What is point of view?
200
Compares two unlike items and includes the words like or as.
What is a simile?
200
The most exciting point of a story (when the problem comes to a head)
What is climax?
200
The use of words whose sounds imitate the sound associated with the object. (chomp, splat, screech, bang)
What is onomatopoeia
300
A brief tale that teaches a lesson about human nature usually involves animals
What is fable?
300
The central message in a literary work
What is theme?
300
Compares relationships
What is analogy?
300
An interruption of the action to present events that took place at an earlier time.
What is flashback?
300
Repetition of initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words (wild and wooly, threatening throngs)
What is alliteration?
400
Type of literature that uses rhythm, rhyme, and is written in stanzas
What is poetry?
400
When one thing represents something else
What is symbolism?
400
Compares two unlike things by saying that one thing IS the other
What is metaphor?
400
A problem in a story
What is conflict?
400
The beat of a poem
What is rhythm?
500
Literature about IMAGINARY characters and events (fake)
What is fiction?
500
A "paragraph" in a poem
What is a stanza?
500
Phrase that has meaning beyond the literal meaning of the words
What is idiom?
500
Clues that give hints about events that have not happened yet
What is foreshadowing?
500
Vivid description that appeals to the 5 senses
What is imagery?