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Plot
Figurative Language
Poetic Terms I
Poetic Terms II
Hodge Podge
100
Climax
What is the highest or most intense point in the story?
100
Metaphor
What is a comparison of two unlike things not using like or as?
100
Rhythm
What is the overall sound of a poem, made up of stressed and unstressed syllables?
100
Stanza
What are a group of lines of text in poetry?
100
Author's Purpose
Why does an author write? (To inform, persuade, or entertain?)
200
Falling Action
What is the part of the story that takes place after the climax?
200
Elegy
What is a mournful poem written to honor someone who has died?
200
Imagery
What are words or phrases that appeal to the five senses?
200
Alliteration
What is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words?
200
Editorial
What is writing that expresses opinion or reactions to news or events?
300
Setting
What is where and when a story takes place?
300
Simile
What is a comparison of two things using the words like or as?
300
Symbolism
What is the use of a concrete object to represent an abstract idea.
300
Free Verse
What is poetry without regular patterns of rhyme and rhythm?
300
Flashback
What is a break in the forward movement of a story used to inform the reader about something that has happened in the past?
400
Exposition
What is the beginning of the story where we meet the characters and get background information?
400
Hyperbole
What is an extreme exaggeration?
400
Repetition
What is a persuasive technique in which the author uses the same word or phrase over and over again to make it stick in the reader's mind.
400
Personification
What is to give human qualities to non-human objects?
400
Inference
What is an educated guess based on information given in the text and from prior knowledge?
500
Rising Action
What is a series of events that build toward the point of greatest interest?
500
Onomatopoeia
What is the use of words whose sounds suggest their meanings?
500
Sonnet
What is a poem that has fourteen lines?
500
Epic
What is a poem written about the adventures of a hero?
500
Theme
What is the central idea, or main message, of a piece of writing? What is the author's view point on life?