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Genre
Elements of Literature
Figurative Language
Miscellaneous Fiction
Mix-up (any category)
100
A category or type of literature.
What is GENRE?
100
The series of events in the story.
What is PLOT?
100
EXAMPLE: The girl shone bright like a diamond.
What is SIMILE?
100
Coming up with a conclusion based on an educated guess.
What is INFERENCE?
100
A true story that has been written like a novel and elements of literature.
What is NARRATIVE NONFICTION?
200
A story that someone writes about his own life.
What is AUTOBIOGRAPHY?
200
EXAMPLE: Joey feels guilty for failing his Language Arts Benchmark.
What is INTERNAL CONFLICT?
200
EXAMPLE: Did you see that? That trash jumped out of nowhere and tripped me!
What is PERSONIFICATION?
200
The author's feelings towards the topic he is writing about.
What is AUTHOR'S VIEWPOINT.
200
The character who explains the events in the story.
What is NARRATOR?
300
A fictional story that is not long (10-20 book pages).
What is SHORT STORY?
300
The general message of a piece of literature.
What is THEME?
300
EXAMPLE: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
What is METAPHOR?
300
Part of the author's style that reveals his personality.
What is VOICE?
300
What a word means in the context of the sentence/paragraph/story.
What is CONNOTATION?
400
A short and amusing story about a REAL person or REAL incident.
What is ANECDOTE?
400
The overall attitude in a piece of literature.
What is TONE?
400
EXAMPLE: The pan sizzled as I dropped the butter into it.
What is ONOMATOPOEIA?
400
The way an author's writes his story by using specific choices in his writing.
What is AUTHOR'S STYLE?
400
The literal (dictionary) meaning of a word.
What is DENOTATION?
500
A traditional story of history that has not been proven (could be true or could be made up).
What is LEGEND?
500
EXAMPLES: 1st person; 2nd person; 3rd person limited; 3rd person omniscient.
What is POINT OF VIEW?
500
A type of figurative language that appeals to the reader's sense of sight--being very visually descriptive.
What is IMAGERY?
500
A writer's selection of words.
What is WORD CHOICE?
500
Using a comma incorrectly to combine two independent clauses.
What is COMMA SPLICE?