Figurative Language
Parts of a Story
Poetry Parts
Literacy Terms to Know
Writing Terms
100

A comparison using like or as

What is a simile?

100

The time and place of a story

What is setting?

100

the category or type of literature

What is genre?

100

Clearly and accurate

What is precise?

100

The writer's attitude

What is tone?

200

A comparison of two thing without using like or as

What is a metaphor?

200

The sequence of events that form a story

What is plot?

200

A reference to a famous story, person, object, or event

What is allusion?

200

a hint of hints in the surrounding text that can help the reader determine the meaning of an unknown word

What is context clues?

200

facts and examples that support a claim

What is evidence?

300

An imitation of natural sounds in word form

What is an onomatopoeia?

300

A decisive moment that is a major turning point in the plot

What is the climax?

300

a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next

What is internal rhyme?

300

to determine something by using evidence from the text

What is infer?

300

the writer's position on a debatable topic

What is claim?

400

When the author gives an idea, object, or animal human-like qualities

What is personification?

400

Occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved

What is falling action?

400

a series of lines grouped together to divide a poem

What is a stanza?

400

An indication that something will happen in the future

What is foreshadowing?

400

a set of claims, evidence, and reasons to persuade others to take a certain action

What is an argument?

500

Several words in a row that begin with the same sound

What is alliteration?

500

A related series of events in a literacy plot that build toward the point of greatest interest

What is rising action?

500

The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song

What is rhyme scheme?

500

An element of literature that introduces the key background information of a narrative

What is an exposition?

500

Group of words that includes a subject and a verb, and forms a sentence or part of a sentence

What is clause?