Figurative Language
Literary Terms
Poetry
Course Outline
Wild Card Questions
100

A comparison using like or as.

What is a simile?

100

The view from which a story is being told is known as what literary term?

What is point of view, or perspective?

100

How poems are arranged.

What are lines and stanzas?

100

There are this many units within our course this semester. 

What is five?

100

These words mean the opposite of something 

What are antonyms? 
200

A direct comparison of one thing to another.

What is a metaphor?

200

The part of the plot where the action begins. 

What is rising action?

200

The pattern that emerges in the ending words of a poem. 

What is rhyme scheme?

200

This is crucial to academic success. 

What is regular attendance?

200

These words are the same spelled backwards as they are forwards.

What are palindromes?

300

A figure of speech that gives human characteristics to nonhuman things. 

What is personification?
300

The part of the plot where the characters, setting, and conflict are introduced.

What is the exposition?

300

A Japanese style of poetry consisting of three lines, with a certain amount of syllables in each.

What is a haiku?

300

Students are expected to adhere to these. 

What are school policies?

400

The repetition of a consonant sound, usually at the beginning of two or more words in a line. 

What is alliteration?

400

The time and place of the action in a literary work

What is the setting?

400

A narrative poem, intended to be sung or set to music. 

What is a ballad?

400

This category is weighted at 18%. 

What is Reading and Textual Analysis Performance Assessments?

400

The Disney classic, "The Lion King" is based on this Shakespearean play. 

What is Hamlet?

500

A reference to some person, place, or event with either literary, historical, mythological, or biblical significance. 

What is allusion?

500

This literary term can be defined as the sequence of events in a literary work.

What is the plot?

500

An poem that does not rhyme is called this.

What is a blank verse?

500

Examples of this include: any and all forms of plagiarism, the use of artificial intelligence, unauthorised collaboration amongst peers, cheating, or falsifying information. 

What is academic misconduct?

500

This is the most commonly used letter in the English alphabet. 

What is the letter E?