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The "S" of Literature
"AA" or not as Fonzie would say
Two P's and a PHC
I'm All Shook Up
M & N's
100
This is the time and place in a story.
What is setting?
100
This is a story about a person's life written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
100
This is what you call the main character in a story.
What is protagonist?
100
This is writing that is imaginative and designed to entertain, but also may contain true facts and events.
What is fiction?
100
This writing is about real people and real events.
What is nonfiction?
200
This is a person, place or thing that represents an idea or thought in literature.
What is a symbol?
200
A person or thing in the story struggling against the main character is called this.
What is the antagonist?
200
This word means giving human characteristics to a nonhuman object.
What is personification?
200
This is what you call a person in the story.
What is a character?
200
This is a figure of speech that says one thing is another, such as "your mother is a drill sergeant."
What is a metaphor?
300
This is the name for a figure of speech that makes a comparison using the words like or as, such as, "you are as pretty as a picture."
What is a simile?
300
A person's life story told by someone else is called this.
What is a biography?
300
This is what you call literature intended to be funny.
What is humor?
300
These two words refer to the buildup of excitement in a story.
What is rising action?
300
This is what you call the teller of a story.
What is a narrator?
400
This is the word for describing an author's way or writing.
What is style?
400
This word refers to what goes on in a story.
What is action?
400
This is what you call a struggle the main character has throughout the story.
What is conflict?
400
A story about an experience that changes a literary character's life is known by these two words.
What is a turning point?
400
This word is about the feeling the writer creates for the readers of his stories.
What is mood?
500
A humorous writing that makes fun of foolishness or evil goes by this name.
What is satire?
500
This is the word for a kind of literature such as comedy, mystery, a play, fiction or nonfiction.
What is genre?
500
This is the position from which the author or storyteller tells the story.
What is point-of-view?
500
This is a worldwide network of computers that speak a common language.
What is the internet?
500
This is fiction that is book-length and has more plot and character details than a short story.
What is a novel?