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Literary Techniques (Genres and Types of Writing)
Figurative Language
Vocabulary
Literary Elements & Techniques
Potpourri
100
This is a type of writing when an author tells about ONE part of his/her life.
What is memoir
100
This prefix means bad.
What is mal?
100
The structure of a story. Or the sequence in which the author arranges events in a story. This may have a protagonist who is opposed by an antagonist, creating what is called conflict.
What is plot?
100
This is a word that means the same, or nearly the same.
What is a synonym?
200
This is a type of writing that explains. Textbooks are an example of this.
What is Expository?
200
This states that one thing is something else. It is a comparison, but it DOES NOT use like or as to make the comparison.
What is a metaphor?
200
This suffix means process of.
What is -ation?
200
This point of view is told from the perspective of a non-participant in the story who only knows the thoughts of one character.
What is third person limited?
200
She is the best teacher you've ever had in your life!
Who is Ms. Casey?
300
Read the following excerpt: from Living History by Hillary Clinton I needed a push. Finally I got one, but it didn't come from a political adviser or Democratic leader. In March, I went to New York City to join tennis legend Billie Jean King at an event promoting an HBO special about women in sports. We gathered at the Lab School in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, joined by dozens of young women athletes who were assembled on a stage adorned with a giant banner that said 'Dare to Compete,' the title of the HBO film. Sofia Totti, the captain of the girls' basketball team, introduced me. As I went to shake her hand, she leaned toward me and whispered in my ear. "Dare to compete, Mrs. Clinton," she said. "Dare to compete." This is what genre?
What is an autobiography?
300
"The muscles on his arms are strong as iron bands" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is Simile?
300
This prefix means from a distance.
What is tele-?
300
This occurs in a story when the narration takes us back to a previous point in time. The events in the past help to explain or understand what happens to the main character in the present.
What is a flashback?
300
This is a type of question that asks you WHEN something happened.
What is a sequence question?
400
This is a story that takes place in the past, but is based on real events.
What is historical fiction?
400
This is the practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships.
What is symbolism?
400
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect." -- Paul Theroux Identify the meaning of the prefix within the following word: retrospect.
What is from the past?
400
This is a central idea or universal truth explored in a piece of writing. It is a message that makes the reader think about life, human nature, or how the world works.
What is theme?
400
This is something you should do on the day of a big test.
various answers
500
Banyan Tree Its branches droop like the hair of Rapunzel. They stoop like an old man— tired of swimming in the Olympics. This passage is an example of this genre.
What is a poem?
500
An overstatement
What is exaggeration?
500
The meaning of the prefix within the word biology.
What is life?
500
Give an example of a theme.
What is (various answers)
500
The hardest part of a test(in your opinion).
answers vary