Figurative Language
Non-Fiction
Poetry
Fiction
You Should Know
100
Words that are sounds.
What is onomotopoeia?
100
A story about a person's life written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
100
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
100
The time and place a story takes place.
What is setting?
100
What the story is mainly about.
What is main idea?
200
"She is as beautiful as a rose" is an example of...
What is a simile?
200
A story about someone's life written by another person.
What is a biography?
200
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative poem?
200
The most exciting part of a story.
What is the climax?
200
The way an author feels about his subject.
What is tone?
300
"I am as hungry as a bear" is an example of...
What is a hyperbole?
300
A strategy used to answer non-fiction passage questions.
What is read the questions first, then read the passage.
300
A free form poem.
What is a poem that has no guidelines/restrictions?
300
The ending of a story.
What is the resolution?
300
The feeling the author creates in a story.
What is mood?
400
"The chair jumped across the room" is an example of...
What is personification?
400
Non-fiction articles have these headings that separate ideas
What are subheadings?
400
A poem that expresses emotion.
What is a lyric poem?
400
Point of view that uses "I".
What is first person?
400
Highlight key words and phrases.
What is a technique for answering a question?
500
"The road was a ribbon of red" is an example of...
What is a metaphor?
500
The main purpose of non-fiction is to...
What is inform?
500
A Japanese poem containing three lines.
What is a haiku?
500
The part of the story between climax and resolution.
What is falling action?
500
What you should do before reading a selection.
What is read the questions?