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Figurative Language
Non-Fiction
Misc.
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
The name for the type of writing that is intended to explain.
What is expository?
200
The most exciting part of a story.
What is the climax or turning point?
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? [and a simile]
300
A strategy used to read non-fiction.
What is look for graphs, charts, illustrations?
300
The name for the type of writing that consists of a story.
What is a narrative?
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 often have these headings that separate ideas?
What are subheadings?
400
The type of writing that is meant to convince readers.
What is persuasive writing?
400
Point of view that uses "I".
What is first person?
400
Three reasons an author writes.
What is entertain, persuade and inform?
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
The topic sentence.
What is the name for the first sentence in a paragraph?
500
Three different ways the author reveals his characters.
What is what the characters says, what the character does, and what others say about the character?
500
What you should do before reading a selection.
What is read the questions?