A comparison between two things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile.
100
The "paragraph" of a poem.
What is a stanza.
100
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun.
100
The dog ate the fallen ice cream cone. Where is the verb in this sentence?
What is "ate".
200
A series of related events.
What is plot.
200
Giving human characteristics to non-human ideas or things.
What is personification.
200
A strong, regular, repeated pattern of sound.
What is rhythm.
200
The three things that make a complete sentence.
What is subject, verb, and complete thought.
200
Love is a warm blanket that covers my heart. What figurative language is being used here?
What is a metaphor.
300
The problem in the story.
What is conflict.
300
A play on differing meanings of words.
What is a pun.
300
The pattern of rhyming words in a poem.
What is Rhyme Scheme.
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The sun began to shine,
The rays they were so fine,
and redder turned my skin,
Not wearing sun lotion.
What is the rhyme scheme?
300
Takes the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun.
300
What is a theme of "A Christmas Carol"?
Various answers.
400
The beginning of the story, where characters, setting, and basic conflict are revealed.
What is exposition.
400
A reference an author makes to another book, poem, work of art, tv show, etc.
What is an allusion.
400
The repetition of vowel sounds and all the sounds following.
What is rhyme.
400
An sentence with only one independent clause.
What is a simple sentence.
400
Wiping his tears, Jacob brushed off his knees. Where is the verb in this sentence?
What is "brushed".
500
The moral or the message of the story.
What is theme.
500
A hint of something to come that an author gives a reader.
What is foreshadowing.
500
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of a poem.
What is meter.
500
A dependent clause is also known as a...(two answers).
What is phrase or fragment.
500
My uncle was the Scrooge of the family, acting as if he couldn't spare a dime. What literary device is the author using here?