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Poetry/Drama
Literary Elements
Vocabulary
Genres
Miscellaneous
100
Words or instructions in a play that are written in italics and enclosed by parenthesis
What are stage directions
100
The message or lesson of a story
What is theme
100
Chronological
What is date or time order?
100
A true story told by the person involved. Uses words like "I", "we", "my", "our".
What is a personal narrative?
100
Where you should look to help you find words with similar meanings (synonyms)
What is a thesaurus
200
In a play, the conversation between characters; it advances the plot and reveals conflict.
What is dialogue
200
The use of clues by an author that suggest events that have yet to occur
What is foreshadowing
200
An example of figurative language that uses "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
200
Includes stage directions and dialogue
What is a play or drama?
200
Words, phrases, or sentences around a word that help determine an unknown word's meaning
What are context clues?
300
The repetition of sounds at the end of words
What is rhyme
300
The perspective from which a story is told
What is point of view
300
leisure
What is rest or free time?
300
Tells a made up story that may or may not be likely to happen in real life
What is fiction
300
Describing a text's main idea, important details, and overall meaning in just a few sentences.
What is summarizing
400
The use of a word or phrase more than one time--used to emphasize.
What is repetition
400
A struggle between two opposing forces
What is conflict
400
treacherous
What is prone to betray or dangerous?
400
Text that explains, describes, or informs
What is expository
400
Can be proven with data, observations, and reliable sources
What is a fact?
500
Placing words on a line by itself, repeating lines and phrases, and changing the appearance of words (bolding, italics, font size).
What are ways to draw attention or emphasis.
500
The feeling created IN THE READER by a literary work or passage
What is mood
500
Sensory Language
What is language that appeals to the 5 senses?
500
A true story about someone's life
What is a biography
500
When looking at a dictionary, what part of the page helps you find the location of the word faster?
What are guide words?