What is the struggle between opposing forces in literature.
100
Onomatopoeia
What is the use of words to imitate sounds, such as "buzz" or "pop"
100
Metaphor
What is a comparision that does not use "like" or "as"
100
Action Verb
What is verbs that tell about action
200
Suspense
What is the growing interest and excitement a reader experiences while awaiting a climax or resolution in a work of literature. Writers create suspense by raising questions in the minds of their readers.
200
Internal Conflict
What is a struggle or problem one has with him/herself
200
Alliteration
What is the repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence
200
Hyperbole
What is an extreme exaggeration
200
Linking Verb
What is verbs that do not show action, state-of-being verbs
300
Foreshadowing
What is the author's use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story.
300
External Conflict
What is a character struggles against some outside force
300
Free Verse
What is a type of poem that does not follow a specfic format
300
Imagery
What is words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses that writers use to describe how their subjects look, sound, feel, taste, and smell.
300
Adjective
What is a word that modifies/describes a noun or pronoun
400
Mood
What is the atmosphere or feeling created in the reader by a literary work.
400
Point of View
What is the perspective from which a story is told
400
Concrete Poem
What is a poem formed into a specific shape
400
Idiom
What is a figure of speech in which the meaning of the phrase is different than the meaning of the individual words in a sentence.
400
Conjunction
What is a word that joins words or groups of words.
500
Tone
What is the writer's or speaker's attitude toward their subject.
500
Prose
What is ordinary language people use in speaking or writing
500
Figurative Language
What is whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else. Any language that goes beyond the literal meaning of words.
500
Symbolism
What is the use of one thing to represent another.
500
Preposition
What is a word that shows how a noun or pronoun relates to another word.