What is the time and place in which a story or scenes occur.
100
What is a biography?
What is a story about a person's life written by someone else
100
What is climax?
What is the point at which the conflict reaches its greatest intensity and is then resolved.
100
What is a falling action?
the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.
200
What is a metaphor?
What is a direct comparison without using like or as
200
What is plot?
What is the sequence of events (chain of events) in a story.
200
What is an autobiography?
What is a story about a person's life written by the person themself
200
What are context clues?
What is word, phrases, or sentences that give meaning to unknown words.
200
What is a flashback?
a scene in a story that occurred before the present time in the story. It can provide background information- is can be memories, dreams, or stories from the past told by characters.
300
What is personification?
What is giving human traits to non-human things.
300
What is a theme?
What is an overall message or lesson learned from literature.
300
What is exposition?
What is the act of explaining something, clear explanation.
300
What is allusion?
What is a reference to a well-known work of literature, art, music, etc.
300
What is a folk tale?
What is a timeless, anonymous and placeless ale told orally among people.
400
What is a symbol?
What is an item that represents a larger, overall theme.
400
What is mood?
What is the overall attitude/feeling of a passage.
400
What is a fable?
What is an old story that teaches a lesson
400
What is point of view?
What is who is telling us the story? from whose perspective are we reading.
400
What is foreshadowing?
What is Clues or hints about something that is going to happen later in the story.
500
What is alliteration?
What is tongue twisters. Sounds at the beginning of words that repeat.
500
What is external conflict?
What is a struggle between a literary character and an outside force such as nature or another character, which drives the dramatic action of the plot.
500
What is fiction?
What is a type of literature that tells a made-up story.
500
What is an antagonist?
What is the opponent or enemy of the main character, or protagonist.
500
What is irony?
What is a statement meaning the opposite of what is literally stated.