A phrase that has a different meaning from the dictionary definitions of its individual words.
What is Idiom
100
A story with exaggerated characters and events.
What is Tall Tales
100
The true story of a person's life written by another person.
What is Biography
100
A story with real information.
What is Nonfiction
200
The action or steps taken to deal with the problem successfully.
What is Solution
200
Exaggeration that is not meant to be taken seriously.
What is Hyperbole
200
A story about supernatural beings or events that often gives a creative explanation for an aspect of nature.
What is Myths
200
A story that is fake.
What is Fiction
200
A type of writing that describes life in the future, in space, or on some imaginary world.
What is Science Fiction
300
Organizes text by asking and answering important questions about a topic.
What is Question and Answer
300
A figure of speech that gives human qualities to an idea, object, or animal.
What is Personification
300
A traditional story popularly regarded as historical but is likely not true. It commonly tells of a hero's great deeds and are often based on real people.
What is Legends
300
Who is telling the story or the perspective from which the story is told.
What is Point of View
300
A true statement that can be proven.
What is Fact
400
Means to find out how things are alike.
What is Compare
400
The repetition of the beginning consonant sounds of neighboring words.
What is Alliteration
400
A piece of nonfiction writing that describes factual events.
What is News Articles
400
The overall feeling a story produces in a reader.
What is Mood
400
The overall message a writer is trying to present.
What is Theme
500
Means to find out how things are different.
What is Contrast
500
Compares two unlike things that are different using the words "like" or "as".
What is Simile
500
When a person writes about his or her own life.
What is Autobiography
500
A type of writing meant to be performed by actors on a stage.
What is Drama
500
A type of writing that has a special arrangement, often groups of short lines. May rhyme or have a regular beat, or rhythm, but not all do.