Information from text surrounding a word or phrase that helps the reader figure out meaning or pronunciation.
What is context clues?
100
A commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar.
What is advertisement?
100
(strict sense) A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning.
What is homonym?
100
Extreme exaggeration or overstatement; especially as a literary or rhetorical device.
What is hyperbole?
100
point of view is a method of storytelling in which the narrator knows only the thoughts and feelings of a single character, while other characters are presented only externally.
What is third person limited?
200
A way of organizing text that emphasizes the causal relationships between two or more events or situations
What is cause and effect?
200
the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse metre, or a certain set of metres alternating in a particular order.
What is poetic meter?
200
An identifiable rule of thumb, convention, or structure that is employed in literature and storytelling.
What is literary device?
200
A phrase that means something different from the literal meaning of the words in the phrase (e.g., raining cats and dogs)
What is an idiom?
200
when the narrator is not involved in the action and can not reveal any characters’ thoughts.
What is third person objective?
300
The main idea, theme, or lesson the author wants to communicate to the reader.
What is author's message?
300
A way of organizing text that emphasizes the similarities and differences of two or more things
What is comparison and contrast?
300
The commonly accepted structures that contribute to the whole of a story, most commonly character, characterization, setting, conflict, resolution, main idea, supporting ideas, plot, and theme.
What is literary elements?
300
Words and phrases that create vivid sensory experiences for the reader.
What is imagery?
300
The author’s attitude toward the subject, characters, or readers, such as friendly, teasing, etc - it is comparable to tone of voice in speech.
What is tone?
400
A story of unknown origin describing plausible but extraordinary past events. Also historical legend.
What is legend?
400
Writing to describe something, someone, or some place in a way that shows the readers, rather than tells - this is done by using descriptive language and details.
What is descriptive writing?
400
A figure of speech, prosopopeia, in which an inanimate object or an abstraction is given human qualities.
What is personification?
400
The quality or state of an event being both coincidental and contradictory in a humorous or poignant and extremely improbable way.
What is irony?
400
The position from which something is observed or considered; an angle, outlook or point of view.
What is viewpoint?
500
A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.
What is genre?
500
The title or topic of a document, article, chapter etc.
What is heading?
500
The return of a word, phrase, stanza form, or effect in any form of literature. Repetition is an effective literary device that may bring comfort, suggest order, or add special meaning to a piece of literature.
What is repetition?
500
A figure of speech in which two words with opposing meanings are used together intentionally for effect.
What is oxymoron?
500
The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds (though with different consonants), usually in literature or poetry.