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Figurative language
SQP2RS
Literary Terms
Types of Conflict
Word Roots
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This type of word sounds like what it describes.
What is onomatopoeia?
100
The first R in SQP2RS stands for this action.
What is read?
100
The genre of short stories and novels is this.
What is fiction?
100
This is the word for the problem in a story.
What is conflict?
100
This word means "one horn".
What is unicorn?
200
A comparison of two things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
200
The "Q" in SQP2RS stands for this.
What is question?
200
This genre of texts includes facts and information.
What is nonfiction?
200
It is at this point in the story when the conflict happens.
What is climax?
200
This is the Latin word for "king".
What is rex?
300
This is the word for when an author gives human traits to non-humans.
What is personification?
300
When you say what you think a text will be about, you make one of these.
What is a prediction?
300
This is the word for how the speaker or narrator sounds in the text, the attitude towards the subject.
What is tone?
300
This is the major conflict for all of the characters in "Anne Frank".
What is person versus society?
300
This word means earth in Latin.
What is terra?
400
This is the word for when an author compares two unlike things.
What is a metaphor?
400
When you preview a text by looking at the title, picture and captions, and keywords, it is called this.
What is survey?
400
This is the word for what happens in a story.
What is plot?
400
Brian, the main character in "Hatchet" must survive alone in the wilderness. This is the name of the type of conflict in this story.
What is person versus nature?
400
This is the Greek root for water.
What is hydro?
500
The repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words.
What is assonance?
500
The last thing you do when you use the SQP2RS strategy is this.
What is summarize?
500
This is the word for the main idea or lesson of a story.
What is theme?
500
This is the name of the conflict a person faces when he or she must make a decision about something important.
What is person versus self?
500
This is the root for "rule"?
What is "cracy"?