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Poetry
Literary Genre
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Grade level Knowledge
Propaganda
100
Comparing two unlike things saying one is the other. Example: The ducks marched in a soldier's parade.
What is metaphor?
100
A story written to be acted out in front of an audience
What is a play or drama?
100

The vantage point from which a story is told...can be 1st, 3rd limited, 3rd objective, or omniscient

What is point of view. 

100
The time and place where a story takes place.
What is the setting?
100
Using harsh or kind words to make a point effective, used usually with people.
What is name-calling
200
Comparing two unlike objects saying one thing is like the other. Example: You smell like a pig!
What is simile?
200
Stories with scientific elements that are not true...yet?
What is science fiction?
200
The story of a person's life written by another person
What is biography.
200
A phrase that cannot be literally true. Example: It is raining cats and dogs.
What is idiom?
200
Suggesting something is practical and a good value for ordinary people
What is plain folks
300
Poetry without regular meter or rhyme.
What is free verse?
300
Fictional literature not over 20 pages long and under 10,000 words.
What is a short story?
300
What a character acts like, looks like, says, what other characters say about them and what the author says about the character.
What is how an author defines a character.
300
The use of words to appeal to the five senses: see, smell, taste, touch, hear.
What is imagery?
300
Using a famous person to endorse a product in advertising.
What is testimonial.
400
Rhymes within the lines of poetry.
What is internal rhyme?
400
A work of literature that teaches a moral.
What is a fable?
400
Giving animals or non-human things human characteristics.
What is personification.
400
The use of words that echo their sense: crash, bang, boom
What is onomatopoeia?
400
A type of propaganda that tries to persuade people to do something "because everyone is doing it"
What is bandwagon
500
Poetry that is written like a short story. It has a plot!
What is narrative poetry?
500
A work of literature that explains something about the world and involves gods and goddesses.
What is a myth?
500
The message you get from a story or novel. What it means to you.
What is theme?
500
When the author stops the action of a story to tell what has happened in the past
What is flashback?
500
Words or phrases that strong emotional overtones, used in advertisements.
What is loaded words or loaded terms?