The author's name line in a newspaper or journal article.
What is byline?
100
A comparison using like or as.
"Smart like an owl."
What is simile.
100
A word that does not have a prefix or suffix added to it.
What is a root (base) word?
100
The time and place a story is located.
What is setting?
100
A word or form that substitutes for a noun or noun phrase.
She, him, we, they
What is pronoun.
200
A poem that uses each letter of a word vertically down the page to start the line.
Oh, you wise bird
Why don't you like the sun?
Let me see your beauty.
What is acrostic?
200
A comparison not using like or as.
"I was a soaring eagle, reaching new heights towards my dreams"
What is metaphor?
200
Placed at the beginning of a word to modify or change its meaning
What is a prefix?
200
The struggle occurring within a character's mind.
What is internal conflict?
200
A word that describes a noun.
blue, happy
What is an adjective?
300
An organized map, or written plan of your writing using Roman numerals and the alphabet.
What is an outline?
300
The subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.
"Bullying is wrong, often resulting in severe consequences"
What is theme?
300
An affix which is placed after the stem of a word.
What is a suffix?
300
Struggle between a literary or dramatic character and an outside force such as nature or another character.
What is external conflict?
300
A word that describes a verb, adjective, or adverb.
What is n adverb?
400
A page organizing your sources for a scholarly paper.
What is a bibliography (works cited).
400
Giving humans traits to non-humans.
"The tree branch reached out and tapped my window, inviting me to play."
What is personification?
400
A word opposite in meaning to another.
What is an antonym?
400
A narrator, whether in literature, film, or theatre, whose credibility has been seriously compromised
What is unreliable narrator?
400
A part of speech that connects words, sentences, phrases or clauses.
and, but
What is a conjunction?
500
Giving credit to your sources in the paper, and showing which facts came from outside sources.
What is parenthetical documentation (in-text citation)?
500
A group of lines in a poem.
"So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens"
What is stanza?
500
A particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group
What is dialect?
500
The highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something.
The "meat" of the story.
What is climax?
500
Describes a relationship between other words in a sentence.
"Anywhere a squirrel can go"
On, under, through