Descriptive writing
Narrative writing
Narrative writing (2)
Misc.
Devices In Action
100
The five senses.
DAILY TRIPLE
What are touch, taste, smell, sight, and sound?
100
True or false: narrative writing is always in the first person.
What is false?
100
The first sentence in a piece of writing or narrative that aims to grab the readers' attention.
What is a hook or opening sentence?
100
What is Theme
What is the moral or the lesson of the story?
100
She sauntered over to our cafeteria table, casually tossing her books onto one of the grimy seats.
What is showing?
200
A word that sounds like the noise or action it is describing.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
The time and place in which a story occurs.
What is setting?
200
True or false: narrative writing is told in chronological order.
What is true?
200
What is Main Idea
What is the central idea of a text?
200
This musical artist and song (title) includes the following dialogue in one of his most famous songs:
"...I gotta know right now
Before we go any further
Do you love me!?
Will you love me forever!?"
"Let me sleep on it
Baby, baby let me sleep on it
Let me sleep on it..."
Who is Meatloaf in Paradise by the Dashboard Lights?
300
Giving human qualities to non-human things or entities.
What is personification?
300
The ending of a story.
What is resolution?
300
What POV is it when someone writes using words like "You", "your"
What is 2nd person?
300
Comparing something using the words like or as
What is a Simile?
300
This artist uses metaphor in the song _______:
‘Cause, baby, you‘re a firework
Come on, show ’em what you‘re worth
Who Is Katy Perry in Firework
400
Language that goes beyond the literal meaning of words to get a message or point across.
What is figurative language or figures of speech?
400
Part of a story that introduces the setting and characters.
What is exposition or opening?
400
Type of narrative/character conflict featured in Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart".
What is an internal conflict?
400
What is the subject of a sentence
What is the noun that performs the action, or a state of being ?
400
This popular band, in the song ______, establishes a unique setting:
Well, I was raised up beneath the shade of a Georgia pine
And that's home, you know
Sweet tea, pecan pie, and homemade wine
Where the peaches grow
And my house, it's not much to talk about
But it's filled with love that's grown in southern ground
Who is Zach Brown in Chicken Fried?
500
Figure of speech used to show/express extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
500
Part of a story that features a turning point for the protagonist/narrator.
What is a climax?
500
An object, person, situation, event, or action with a deeper meaning in the overall context of literary work that goes beyond surface understanding.
What is a symbol?
500
What POV is it when you write using words like: he, she, they, them?
What is 3rd person?
500
This artist uses symbolism in the song ________:
Mirror on the wall, here we are again
Through my rise and fall
You’ve been only friend
You told me that they can understand the man I am
So why are we here talkin’ to each other again
Who is Lil Wayne in Mirror?