Drama
Poetry
Nonfiction
Fiction
Wildcard
100

The list of actors and characters in a play.

What is the cast?

100

For example, ABABCC.

What is rhyme scheme?

100

A genre that is a story of a person's own life.

What is an autobiography?

100

The main character of a story.

Who is the protagonist?

100

Giving an object or animal human traits.

What is personification?

200

Objects used by actors.

What are props?

200

A poem about a person, that is usually funny, and has the following rhyme scheme: AABBA

What is a limerick?

200

The central point of a piece of writing.

What is the main idea or controlling idea?

200

The moment when the reader knows how the problem will be resolved.

What is the climax?

200

This is the moral of the story.

What is the theme?

300

Directions for actors that are not spoken lines.

What are stage directions?

300

The syllable pattern of a Haiku.

What is 5 - 7 - 5?

300

Describe, Explain, Persuade, Highlight, etc.

What are some examples of Author's Purpose verbs?
300

The part of the story where we find out what happens after the problem is solved.

What is the resolution?

300

This is a genre with a story about the Holocaust but it has made-up characters that were not real.

What is Historical Fiction?

400
The reason for a new scene.

What is a change in setting?

400

A line repeated in a poem.

What is a refrain?

400

A fact, a statement, a quote, or event, that backs up a key idea.

What is a supporting detail?

400

When the setting and characters are introduced.

What is the exposition?

400

This is a type of book that tells a story through poetry.

What is a Novel in Verse?

500

The book of lines used by actors.

What is a script?

500

This is a paragraph in a poem.

What is a stanza?

500

The formula for writing a thematic statement.

What is thematic idea + statement about thematic idea, qualifying clause?

500

The formula for writing a summary about a fiction or narrative text.

What is Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then?

500

A strategy in persuasive writing that weakens arguments.

What is a logical fallacy?