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Poetry Terms
Genre
Figurative Language
Making Predictions
Short Story/Novel Terms
100
The repitition of sounds at the end of words.
What is rhyme?
100
Prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events... it is not based on real life actions.
What is fiction?
100
Figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to make direct comparisons between two unlike things in a story.
What is a simile?
100
A prediction of the weather.
What is a forecast?
100
The time and place of action in a piece of writing.
What is the setting?
200
A regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song.
What is the refrain or chorus?
200
A story composed orally and passed down from one person to another by word of mouth.
What is folklore?
200
A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else.
What is a metaphor?
200
Information that you previously knew that could help with predictions and inferences.
What is prior knowledge?
200
A struggle between opposing forces in a story.
What is conflict?
300
The use of a repetitive sound at the beginning of words in a line of poem.
What is alliteration?
300
A form of non-fiction in which the writer tells the story of his or her own life.
What is and autobiography?
300
Type of language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
300
A logical guess about what happens next. (DAILY DOUBLE!)
What is a prediction?
300
A perspective or vantage point from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
400
A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
400
A story written to be performed.
What is a drama or a play?
400
Language used to paint a vivid picture for the reader.
What is imagery?
400
The probability that something will happen.
What is chance or likelihood?
400
The sequence of events that happen in the story, including introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
What is the plot?
500
A formal division of lines in a poem considered to be a unit.
What is a stanza?
500
A brief poem/story, usually with animal characters, that teaches a lesson or moral.
What is a fable?
500
The use of words to imitate sounds: crash, bang, buzz...
What is Onomatopoeia?
500
An event that the author writes about that happened before the time of the story.
What is a flashback?
500
The author's use of clues to hint at what might have happened later in the story.
What is Foreshadowing?