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Fiction
Expository
Figurative Language
Poetry
Drama
100
An author uses this when he provides hints of events to come in a story.
What is a flashback?
100
The most important idea about a topic.
What is main idea?
100
My mouth was as dry as a bone.
What is simile?
100
The narrator of a poem.
What is a speaker
100
Words that characters say to each other.
What is dialogue?
200
The patterns and events in a story.
What is plot?
200
How things are different and how they are alike.
What is comparison and contrast?
200
The sky was full of dancing stars.
What is personification?
200
The lines of a poem.
What is a stanza?
200
They describe the set and tell the actors how and where to move on stage.
What are stage directions?
300
This is used when an author needs to explain something that happened before and is important now.
What is flashback?
300
The most important idea or detail followed by less important ones.
What is order of importance?
300
You could have knocked me over with a feather.
What is a hyperbole?
300
When the poet uses one of the five senses.
What is imagery?
300
The principal character in a drama.
What is the protagonist?
400
The introduction to a story>
What is the exposition?
400
Writing information in your own words.
What is paraphrase?
400
Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better.
What is alliteration?
400
A poem written to tell a story.
What is a narrative poem?
400
The author of a drama.
What is a playwright?
500
The secondary or less important storyline in a story.
What is subplot?
500
A type of inference that requires you to depend more on text than prior knowledge.
What is drawing conclusions?
500
The words: beep, whirr, click, whoosh, swish, zap, zing, ping, clang, bong, hum, boom, munch, gobble, crunch, pow, smash, wham, quack, meow, oink, and tweet.
What is Onomatopoeia?
500
A poem that expresses a strong feeling and has musical quality.
What is a lyric poem?
500
The divisions of a drama.
What are acts and scenes?