Poetry
Figures of Speech
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Miscellaneous
100

When two words end in the same sound

What is rhyme?

100

a phrase applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance

What is a metaphor?

100

a story written in as few words as possible, typically under 2,000

What is flash fiction?

100

A story that is true, but uses figurative language and other poetic elements

What is creative non-fiction?

100
Daily exercises in the classroom designed to warm up a writer's brain and creativity

What are bell ringers?

200

When two words begin with the same letter or sound

What is alliteration?

200

A metaphor using the words "like" or "as"

What is a simile?

200

exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution

What is narrative structure?

200

poetry that is meant to be performed in front of an audience

What is performance poetry?

200

the way an author's personality comes through on the page, via everything from word choice and sentence structure to tone and punctuation

What is voice?

300

Type of poetry that doesn't follow a specific rhyme scheme or meter

What is free verse?

300

pictures that are constructed using words

What is imagery?

300

a punctuation mark indicating a pause between parts of a sentence. It is also used to separate items in a list and to mark the place of thousands in a large numeral.

What are commas?

300

Written by Sandra Cisneros, this story recounts the author's sorrowful childhood birthday

What is Eleven?

300

a gathering of writers to share their pieces with each other

What are Writers Rooms?

400

a group of lines forming the basic recurring metric unit in a poem

What is a stanza?

400

the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman

What is personification?

400

a punctuation mark indicating a pause, typically between two main clauses that do not include a coordinating conjunction word like "but" or "and"



What is a semi-colon?

400

narrative form true accounts of historical eras and events, written with storytelling, dialogue, setting, and character development

What is historical nonfiction?

400

a repository of thoughts and ideas that writers collect from other sources for future use or to reflect upon

What is a commonplace book?

500

a line length that has 3 feet (hint: the second part of the word is "meter")

What is trimeter?

500

objects that stand to represent other concepts

What are symbols?

500

Directly focused descriptions of specific things, adds to the realism of the story

What are details?

500

the craft of giving a character a personality, depth, and motivations that propel them through a story from beginning to end

What is character development?

500

a Japanese poem consisting of five lines, the first and third of which have five syllables and the other seven

What is a tanka?