Fiction
Nonfiction
Mystery vocabulary
Poetry
Test Questions
100

Stories that transport the reader to a different time or place, planets or average people dealing with very unusual situations

 What is Science Fiction?

100

When you interview, use journals, diaries and write about another persons life.

What is a biography?

100

A person who may be responsible for the crime.

What is a suspect?

100

A poem that tells a story, usually with four-line stanza

What is a ballad?

100

The restatement of words or phrases to emphasize a point

What is Repetition?

200

Stories that is invented by an author but the story elements like the plot, characters and settings are realistic. 

What is realistic fiction?

200

When you read information on how to do something or a textbook of facts.

What is informational writing?

200

The term for a false piece of evidence.

What is a red herring?

200

Four lines of poetry with has a rhyming pattern AABB or ABCB

What is Quatrain

200

A comparison that contains the words like or as

What is a simile

300

Stories that are made up that take place during an actual time period in history.

What is historical fiction?

300

When you write your own story about yourself.

What is an autobiography?

300

The part of a mystery in which the solution is revealed.

What is a denouement?

300

A three line poem about nature

What is a haiku?

300

An exaggeration, often used to create humor

What is Hyperbole?

400

Stories with good verses evil and have imaginary characters.

What is fantasy?

400

When you read and you are given facts that make you believe in the text. 

What is persuasive writing?

400

A feeling of excitement about what might happen in the story.

What is suspense?

400

A two line poem that rhymes and express a complete thought

What is a couplet?

400

The way a person speaks

What is dialect?

500

These stories have adversaries in them that might be human, nature and self.

What is Adventure?

500

Story of Helen Keller's Life

What is biography?

500

The ability to commit the crime.

What is the means?

500

A humorous, five line poem

What is a Limerick?

500

The repetition of beginning sounds

What is Alliteration?