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Fiction/Literature
Nonfiction
Drama
Poetry
Novels
100
The time and place in which a story is set.
What is setting?
100
The reason for or goal of a piece of writing.
What is the purpose?
100
Notes included in a drama to describe how the work is to be performed or staged
What are stage directions?
100
The voice a poet uses in a poem ; the character who tells the story
What is speaker?
100
The turning point or point of highest action in a story.
What is the climax?
200
The sequence of events in a story
What is plot?
200
The type of nonfiction that tells a story.
What is narrative?
200
The conversation between two or more characters in a literary work.
What is dialogue?
200
the repetition of initial consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
200
This reading character role pays close attention to the words in a piece of writing.
What is word watcher?
300
The main idea or message about life in a story.
What is theme?
300
Writing when a person tells the story of his/her own life.
What is autobiography?
300
A section of uninterrupted action within an act in a drama
What is a scene?
300
Words or details that appeal to one or more of the five senses
What is imagery?
300
World War II in Curacao.
What is the setting of "The Cay"?
400
The stage of plot development where the setting, characters, and conflict are introduced.
What is exposition?
400
Cause and effect, compare and contrast, narrative.
What is text structure?
400
A long, uninterrupted speech spoken by a character to other characters
What is a monologue?
400
Literary technique used to add a musical quality to poetry
What is a sound device?
400
Character vs. character Character vs. self Character vs. society Character vs. nature
What are types of conflict?
500
A struggle between two opposing forces.
What is conflict?
500
To entertain, persuade, and inform.
What are the three purposes for nonfiction?
500
The big question for the drama unit.
What is "How do we decide who we are?"
500
A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else
What is a metaphor?
500
A character whose actions are inspiring, or noble; often struggles to overcome the obstacles and problems that stand in the way
What is hero/heroine