Poetry
Short Stories
Literature Terms
Research
Essays
100

The format poems are written in (like a paragraph)

What is a stanza

100

The type of figure Eula May Daniels was

What is a ghost
100

The main person or animal in a story doing action

What is a character
100

The term used when stealing words or facts from another source and giving them credit

What is cite or citation

100

Most paragraphs must have a minimum of this number of sentences in middle school

What is 5

200

The term that means extreme exaggeration

What is hyperbole

200

Two ways the old man planned the crime in Tell Tale Heart

What are watching days before, having proper supplies, laughing about crime (out of mind)

200

The five main events of a story

What is Plot or Summary

200

The style of writing used for your research paper/bibliography in 8th grade

What is MLA
200

When writing a closing sentence never start the sentence with this

What is a TH word- This, that, these, those
300

The symbol Langston Hughes used to compare life struggles

What is a stairway

300
What the old man heard in the floorboards when cops were at his home

What is a heartbeat or conscience

300

A lesson taught in a story

What is a theme

300

Where the period goes when writing a citation at the end of the sentence

Where is after the parentheses or citation
300

The three types of essays practiced in 8th grade

What are Informative, Argument, Narrative

400

The word repeated in The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe.

What is Nevermore

400

Why Eula Mae got a name in the story after the Civil Rights Movement/new driver

What is she now mattered/Blacks were 'equal'

400

The bad AND good guy in a story

What is an antagonist and protagonist
400

Another name for the bibliography last page

What is Works Cited

400

The type of sentences a good/advanced writer uses to make their essay better. Often starts with phrases to hang off the cliff....

What are Complex Sentences

500

A planned pattern of rhyme by a poet

What is Rhyme Scheme

500

Two items used as symbols used in Tell Tale Heart 

What are the heart, floorboards, lantern, door, police or bed

500

Taking a guess based on clues in the passage

What is to infer

500

The fancy term for citing your source and page number at the end of your sentence in parentheses

What is Parenthetical Citation
500

The third paragraph of an argument essay must have this to acknowledge/state the other side's point

What is a counterclaim