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Literature
Vocabulary
FREEBE
Grammar
Potpourri
100
What is the term for the turning point of a story?
Climax
100
Figurative language used that conveys sounds.
What is onomatpopeia?
100
She is our computer extraordinaire.
Who is Ms. Elmore?
100
The term for words that join sentences.
What are conjunctions?
100
Who was our guest speaker?
Who was Donny Caliri?
200
Stories have a structure. This is what you call the sequence of events.
What is the plot?
200
My Teddy Bear gave me a hug, is an example of this.
What is personification?
200
Two words that sound alike but are normally spelled different and have different meanings.
What are homophones?
200
He, she, it, them, our, mine, his...are examples of...
What are pronouns?
200
This type of genre typically has technology, fantasy, and future in it.
What is science fiction?
300
This is the meaning or moral of the story.
What is the theme?
300
This is the meaning you bring/give to a word.
What is connotation?
300
This is what you do when you say or write something that another author wrote, but you do this in your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
300
This a a term for the main verb(s) in a sentence.
What is a simple predicate?
300
What is the longest day of the year?
June 21st
400
Authors will use this to convey vivid images and more meaning to the words.
What is figurative language?
400
Snob appeal, bangwagon, and name-calling are techniques used to influence people, commonly known as...
What is propaganda?
400
The antagonist in Tuck Everlasting.
Who was the man in the Yellow Suit?
400
This is what you call two or more sentences that are written as if they were a single sentence.
What is a run-on sentence?
400
Although, next, however, even though, finally, at last...are called...
What are transition words?
500
What do you call a type or category of literature?
Genre
500
A person, place, or an object that stands for something other than itself.
What is a symbol?
500
The first name of your principal.
Who is Kim?
500
Of, behind, toward, over, above are examples of...
What are prepositions?
500
The author of Diary of a Wimply Kid.
Who is Jeff Kinney?