Fiction
What do you call the time and the place in which the story unfolds?
What is the setting?
What type of figurative language is this?
He stepped as softly as a cat.
What is simile?
Which word has a more positive connotation?
Bookworm Nerd
What is bookworm?
What are Acts broken down into in a play?
What are scenes?
What do you think the italicized word means based on the context clues in the sentence?
Like the honor bestowed on the winners at the Oscars, I received accolades from my parents for my good grades.
Answers may vary but should be closely related to praise, approval, or recognition.
What do you call the words characters say to one another?
What is dialogue?
What type of figurative language is this?
My brother is a bear if he doesn't take a nap on the weekends.
What is metaphor?
What do we call the "paragraphs" of poems?
What are stanzas?
Which is an example of stage directions?
A. JACK: In the cloakroom at Victoria station.
B. JACK: (very seriously) Yes, Lady Bracknell. I was in a handbag.
C. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
D. LADY BRACKNELL: You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter--a girl brought up with the utmost care--to marry into a cloakroom!
What is B.? Very seriously shows the reader how Jack should state his lines.
Which is an example of antiquated language?
A. gladsome
B. happy
C. cheerful
What is gladsome (an old-fashioned way of saying "glad")?
What do you call the sequence of events in a story?
What is plot?
What type of figurative language is this?
The river's voice was calling me, so I dove right in.
What is personification?
How would you describe the mood of the following lines?
I'm wishing at this Christmas time
that I could but repay
A portion of the gladness
that you've strewn along the way;
And could I have one wish this year,
this only would it be:
I'd like to be the sort of friend
that you have been to me.
Answers will vary. Teacher decides.
What do we call the playwright's feelings or attitude about the subject or situation?
What is tone?
Make an inference:
Someone says, "I wouldn't eat after that two-year-old if I were you."
What can you infer about the situation?
Answers will vary, but student will likely say something along the lines of "the two year old probably just did something gross."
What do you call the central message about the world, life or human nature in a story?
What is theme?
What type of figurative language is this an example of?
The cannon went BOOM!
What is onomatopoeia?
What is the rhyme scheme of the following lines:
I want my class to do their best.
if they study hard, they'll ace the test.
But if they fall asleep without studying.
The test will win the match.
What is AABC?
What is the difference between tone and mood?
What is the tone is the writer's attitude about the subject; the mood is the general atmosphere the reader feels?
What do you call it when a reader forms ideas about a story based on the details the author provides?
What is making an inference?
Which type of narrator knows the thoughts, feelings, and actions of all the characters?
What is third-person omniscient?
What type of figurative language is this?
She sweetly sang and swayed sorrowfully in the sand.
What is alliteration?
What do you call language that is the OPPOSITE of poetry (verse)?
What is prose?
Deafening silence, original copies, and awfully pretty are all examples of this type of figure of speech often used in a play.
What are oxymorons?
What is the difference between a traditional text and a modern text?
What is traditional texts were written long ago, whereas modern texts were written recently?