Fiction
Miscellaneous
Figurative Language
Literary Terms
100

The sequence of the events that happen in a story?

What is plot?

100

A genre in nonfiction which is a story of one's own life.

What is autobiography?

100

The crook was as sly as a fox.

What is simile?

100

Two people speaking back and forth.  It involved quotes.

What is dialogue?

200

The person, animal, or figure in a work of literature.

What is character?

200

A prefix that means life.

What is bio?
200

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

What is alliteration?

200

The punctuation marks used in a narrative to indicate speech or dialogue.

What are quotation marks?

300

The problem or struggle in a work of fiction.

What is conflict?

300

Books that are about real things, people, events, and places.

What is nonfiction?

300

Repetition of sounds at the end of words

What is rhyme?

300

In literature, refers to the step by step process where an author introduces and then describes a character.

What is characterization?

400
The story takes place in North Carolina in the 1980's.  This description is an example of...

What is setting?

400

A fact, a statement, a quote, or event, that backs up a key idea.

What is a supporting detail?

400

A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else.

What is metaphor?

400

A word or phrase that appeals to one ore more of the five senses.

What is an image?

500

The point of the story where the reader is the most excited.  They do not know what is going to happen next.

What is climax?

500

Events that lead to the resolution of a story.

What is falling action?

500

Giving an object or an animal human traits.

What is personification?

500

The sudden moment when memories come back to a character.

What is a flashback?