Figurative Language
Literary Elements
Poetry Structure 101
Greek and Latin Phobias
Writing Stuff
100

Comparing two different things using the words "like" or "as". For example, "He smiles like the Joker".

What is a simile?

100

This is part of the story when characters are introduced.

What is the exposition?
100
This word refers to the rhythm of the words in a poem.

What is a meter?

100

This word refers to someone who is deathly afraid of spiders.

What is Arachnophobia?

100

This type of writing involves using evidence to support claims, and uses evidence and reason to support claims.

What is Argumentative Writing?
200

Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. For example, "I could eat a whole cow!"

What is a hyperbole?

200

A lesson or moral that a person learns from a story.

What is theme?

200

A group of lines in poem 

What is a stanza?

200

This word describes a person who has an extreme fear of flying.

What is aerophobia?

200

This type of writing is based on presenting facts and research. No opinions or judgements.

What is Explanatory or Informational Writing?
300

This word describes when a writer gives human qualities to non-human things. 

What is personification?

300
This describes the way a story is told and from which perspective the story is being told.

What is Point of View?

300

Nursery rhymes use this type of rhythm

What is a sing-song rhythm, or repetition?

300

This word describes a person who has a deep fear of heights. 

What is a acrophobia?

300

This type of writing can be either fiction or non-fiction, and includes dialogue, pacing, and sensory or figurative language details. 

What is narrative writing?

400

The word refers to making a biblical or famous reference to another work. For example, "Beyonce is Queen"

What is an Allusion?

400

This is the "peak" of the plot where all the tension of the rising action finally comes to a head.

What is Climax?

400

This word means the author’s attitude toward the subject, and describes if the word is negative or positive.

What is Tone?

400

This word describes a person who has a deep fear of small or tight spaces.

What is Claustrophobia?

400

This is the last sentence in an argumentative essay in paragraph 1.

What is a thesis, or claim?

500

This word describes a sound and actually mimics the sound of the object or action; it refers to when it is spoken.

What is Onomatopoeia?

500

The emotion or feeling that readers get from reading the words on a page.

What is Mood?

500

This is a small section of a line in a poem.

What is a rhythmic foot?
500

This word refers to having a severe phobia of holes, especially a lot of them in a concentrated area.

What is trypophobia?

500

This is commonly referred to as dot dot dot, and placed at the end of a sentence to show an intentional omision of words, trailing of speech, or pause in thought.

What is an ellipsis?