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A type of story that is made up, and didn't happen.
What is fiction?
100
The person speaking to us in a story or telling a story.
What is a narrator?
100
A figure of speech that compares two unlike things, using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
The tension and suspense in a story.
What is the conflict?
100
The place and time in which a story or play occurs.
What is the setting?
200
A long work of fiction that tells the story of fictional characters and events.
What is a novel?
200
A verbal exchange between two or more people.
What is dialogue?
200
A figure of speech that compares to unlike things.
What is a metaphor?
200
The highest point of a story, often where great change occurs.
What is the climax?
200
A hint or suggestion of what is to come in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
300
A book in which the author tells the true story of his or her own life.
What is an autobiography?
300
A shifting back to events that took place at an earlier time.
What is a flashback?
300
Giving human qualities, feelings, actions, or characteristics to a non-human object.
What is personification?
300
The contrast between what is said and what is meant, or between the appearance of things and their reality.
What is irony?
300
The type, or kind, of a story.
What is a genre?
400
A piece of writing that gives information about a subject.
What is an article?
400
The emotion of a piece of writing.
What is the tone?
400
The imitation of natural sounds in word form.
What is an onomatopoeia?
400
A character who serves as a contrast to the main character.
What is a foil?
400
A technique in which the same word or phrase is repeated in a story to create emphasis.
What is repetition?
500
A section of Non-fictional texts, that deals with stories instead of information.
What is Literary Text.
500
A speech that a character makes in a drama in order to show his or her inner feelings and conflicts.
What is a soliloquy?
500
Language used to help a reader visualize what is happening in a story or poem by using an imaginary comparison, rather than a literal statement.
What is figurative language?
500
Groups of lines that have been separated from other groups of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
500
An extended solo speech by a character in a play.
What is a monologue?