Figurative Language
Literary terms #1
Literary terms #2
Fiction Elements
Fact or Opinion
100

DAILY DOUBLE A direct comparison between two or more things.

What is metaphor?

100

The people or animals in a story

characters

100

Which organizational pattern tells how things are alike and how they are different? 

compare and contrast

100

In what point of view is this sentence written? He fixed his car in two days.

What is third person.

100

Fact or Opinion? Athletes are role models and should conduct themselves accordingly in the public eye.

What is an opinion?

200

The students are so loud in the hallway that people can hear them 10 miles away. 

What is hyperbole? 

200

How many parts are in the plot diagram?  Name them for TRIPLE POINTS

What is 5 ?

200

The author's attitude toward the subject. 

What is tone. 

200

The sequence of events in a story

What is plot?

200

TRIPLE POINTS: Turn this statement into a fact. Hayfield Secondary School is the best school in the whole wide world. 

Answers will vary

300

“His humility was a gentle river, flowing with quiet strength.”

What is a metaphor?

300

 Triple Points  When the opposite of what is expected happens (Gift of the Magi)

Irony

300

TRIPLE POINTS What is the point of highest tension in a story?

What is the climax?

300

DAILY DOUBLE: Name 3  specific types of conflict

Person vs person, person vs society, person vs nature, person vs self, person vs supernatural, person vs technology

300

Fact or opinion? Dancing is a safe and healthy activity.

What is an opinion.

400

Daily Double Despite being over 90 years old, my grandmother’s mind is as sharp as a razor. 

What is a simile?

400

DAILY DOUBLE We use our prior knowledge and evidence from the text to make...

Inferences

400
Which organizational pattern puts information in time order? 

Chronological order

400

The feeling that the reader gets from the story. 

What is mood?

400

Fact or opinion? Richmond is the state capital of Virginia.

What is fact?

500

The avalanche devoured anything standing in its way.

What is personification?

500

Daily Double Explain the difference between limited and omniscient point of view. 

3rd person limited shows the thoughts, feelings and actions of ONE character.


3rd person omniscient shows the thoughts, feelings and actions of ALL characters. 

500

Explain the difference between internal and external conflicts.

internal- inside one's self

external- with someone/something else

500

Give an example of alliteration

answers will vary- repeated beginning sound

500

Students attend school for 250 days a year.

What is fact?