Words
Story
Elements
A CATegory for Literary Devices
Trilogies+ Screen
Adaptations
Summer
Reading
100

Words that represent a person, place, thing, feeling, quality or idea are known as this.

What is a noun?

100

This story element tells where and when a story takes place.

What is the setting?

100

It is the type of figurative language used here: "The cat leapt through the air like a gymnast at the Olympics."

What is a simile?

100

Harry, Ron, and Hermione attend Hogwarts in this magical series.

What is Harry Potter?

100

The story centers on this war.

What is the Vietnam War?

200

A word that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word is called this.

What is a synonym?

200

This story element is the main problem the characters must solve.

What is the central conflict? 

200

It is the type of figurative language used here: "The cat was a tornado ripping apart the house."

What is a metaphor?

200

Bella Swan falls in love with a vampire in this series set in the Pacific Northwest.

What is Twilight?

200

This is the name of the author (and narrator of most parts) of The Things They Carried.

Who is Tim O'Brien?

300

A word that describes a noun is called this.

What is an adjective?

300
A broad and consistent concept or topic, such as love, courage, or forgiveness, is known as this story element.

What is a theme?

300

It is the type of figurative language used here: "The feathers danced the waltz through the air as the cat chased them."

What is personification?

300

Katniss Everdeen volunteers as tribute in this dystopian series.

What is The Hunger Games?

300

The main character tries to avoid going to the war by fleeing to this country.

What is Canada?

400

This is a word part added to the end of a word. Examples include: -ation, -ness, -ly, -ist, etc.

What is a suffix?

400

This character or force opposes the protagonist.

What is the antagonist?

400

It is the type of figurative language used here: "The cat could sleep for one hundred years."

What is hyperbole?

400

The main character discovers he is a demigod in this series based on Greek mythology.

What is Percy Jackson and the Olympians?

400

Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carries these because he is in love with Martha.

What are letters?

500

The feelings or ideas associated with a word are called its this.

Connotation

500

A third person point of view that centers only on a single character's perspective is called this.

What is limited omniscient?

500

It is the type of sound device used here: "Meow, hiss, purr."

What is onomatopoeia? 

500

Frodo Baggins must destroy the One Ring in this fantasy trilogy.

What is The Lord of the Rings?

500
This is how Kiowa dies. 

What is drowns in a field of sewage?