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IDIOMS
POINT OF VIEW
RANDOM
FIGURATIVE LANG.
POETRY
100
When her company went out of business, her money went down the drain.
What is lost or forever wasted?
100
A character narrates the story and uses pronouns like “I, me, my and mine”.
What is first person point of view?
100
A story written about someone else’s life.
What is a biography?
100
The use of a word to describe or imitate a natural sound or the sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
100
Literature that is written in meter or verse.
What is poetry?
200
Her mother did not like her boyfriend from the word go.
What is from the very beginning?
200
The thoughts of every character is open to the reader.
What is third person omniscient?
200
The character in a story who encounters conflict and is changed by it.
What is a dynamic character?
200
Human characteristics are given to an animal or an object
What is personification?
200
Words that end with the same sound.
What is rhyme?
300
It’s raining cats and dogs and our picnic is ruined.
What is raining hard?
300
The narrator knows only the thoughts and feelings of a single character.
What is third person limited point of view?
300
A minor character who does not undergo change in a story and stays basically the same.
What is a static character?
300
A comparison of two things using the words “like” or “as”.
What is a simile?
300
Words and phrases used to appeal to the five senses.
What is imagery?
400
I begged to go to the party, but Dad said I was crying crocodile tears.
What are fake tears?
400
What point of view is rarely used?
What is second person point of view?
400
The type of literature that is true and is based on factual information
What is nonfiction?
400
An exaggeration so dramatic no one would believe it were true.
What is a hyperbole?
400
Groups of poetic lines.
What are stanzas?
500
The boxer was accused of accepting money under the table to lose the fight.
What is in secret or dishonestly?
500
The way the author allows the reader to “hear” or “see” what is going on.
What is point of view?
500
The term given to a category of literature.
What is a genre?
500
A comparison made to show a similarity.
What is an analogy?
500
Poems which do not have a regular rhythm or rhyme and sound more like conversation or prose.
What is free verse?