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Fiction
Language Conventions
Figurative Language
Literary Terms
Text Features
100

The use of clues to suggest events that will happen later in the story.

What is foreshadowing?

100

This has two main clauses joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction, such as and, or, or but.

What is a compound sentence?

100

Words that imitate the sound they represent

What is onomatopoeia?

100
Two people speaking back and forth. It involved quotes.
What is dialogue?
100

A nonfiction film that presents, or documents, information about people or events.

What is a documentary?

200
The person in a work of literature.
What is character?
200

Used to mark omissions from quoted materials and pauses in writing.

What is ellipsis point?

200

The crook was as sly as fox is an example of

What is simile?

200
When a character sees something from their perspective.
What is point of view?
200

Three examples of motives and clues that can help you identify a the film’s emphasis, or focus  

What is social, commercial and political?

300
The problem in a work of fiction
What is conflict?
300

When a noun or pronoun refers to more than one, it is this in number.

What is plural?

300

My computer hates me is an example of.

What is personification?

300

A series of events that occur in stages of development

What is plot?

300

In this, writers explore ways in which science and technology might affect people and the world.

What is science fiction?

400

The narrator, or the voice that tells the story, is an outside observer.

What is third-person point of view?

400

"When they released Mister Toussaint the next day, they made him take LOONY GOONY home with him," is an example of this.

What is a complex sentence?

400

Choose the best answer. Which of the following is an  inanimate objects that can be personified? A) a star  B) a dog  C) a girl  D) a basketball team

What is A?

400
The sudden moment when memories come back to a character.
What is flashback?
400

This person's assessment of events cannot be trusted for some reason—he or she might be purposefully lying, mentally unstable, or too young or unsophisticated to fully understand events.

What is an unreliable narrator?

500

the point of greatest tension in the story, in which the conflict begins to be resolved

What is climax?

500

Choose the right answer.
I have _____ the last soda.
A) drank B) drunk C) drinked D) drink

What is B?

500
Extreme exaggeration used for emphasis
What is hyperbole?
500

It includes the basic elements of fiction—setting, characters, plot, conflict, and theme.

What is a short story?

500

The way an author reveals the traits and personalities of characters

What is a characterization?