A line or group of lines that is repeated throughout a
poem, usually after every stanza is this.
What is a refrain?
100
Milestones will be as easy as pie is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is an idiom?
100
The sweet smell of success is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is Alliteration?
100
A discussion or conversation between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
100
A word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the language, as joyful, elated, glad.
What is a synonym?
200
Two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem. They are usually of the same length and follow the same pattern of meter and rhyme.
What are stanzas?
200
This type of figurative language always uses like or as.
What is simile?
200
These are the five types of imagery.
What is sight, smell, taste, sound, and touch?
200
A quality that a character exhibits is called this.
What is character traits?
200
A word opposite in meaning to another.
Fast/slow
What is an antonym?
300
The similarity in sound of the ends of words: the last stressed syllable and the following unstressed syllables (if any). It is usually a structuring device in verse.
What is rhyme?
300
Bang, pop, and hiss are this type of figurative language.
What is Onomatopoeia?
300
I nearly died laughing is an example of this over exaggerated type of figurative language.
What is Hyperbole?
300
This is the meaning or lesson of a story.
What is the theme?
300
A word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air.
What is a homophone?
400
When rhyming verses are arranged into stanzas, we can identify them by assigning letters each rhyme, beginning with a and proceeding through the alphabet. Example: aa bb
What is rhyme scheme?
400
Her hair was silk is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
400
Words or phrases which read the same backwards as forwards, such as race car, is called this.
What is a Palindrome?
400
This in a story is the place where the story happens and the time when it happens.
What is setting?
400
A group of letters which you can add to the beginning of a root word* to change the meaning of the word.
mis + fortune = misfortune
What is a prefix?
500
To make an imaginary world seem real, an author
often makes use of words and phrases that appeal to
the senses. These words and phrases, help a reader mentally experience what the characters
in the literary selection are actually experiencing.
What is imagery?
500
The rain kissed my cheeks as it fell is an example of personification. Personification defined is this.
What is giving human traits
(qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics)
to non-living objects (things, colors,
qualities, or ideas).
500
I used to be a transplant surgeon, but my
heart just wasn't in it is an example of this.
What is a Pun?
500
This point of view uses pronouns like “he”, “she”, “it”, “they” or a name.
What is third person?
500
A word ending. It is a group of letters you can add to the end of a root word*.
walk + ing = walking
help + ful = helpful