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?