Genre
I am a story set in the future, in space, or with technology as a main plot; blend of fact and fiction.
What am I?
Science Fiction
I am the pattern of rhyme that comes at the end of each line or verse. You often label me as ABAAB, or ABAB.
What am I?
Rhyme scheme
I am a word opposite in meaning to another.
Hot --> Cold OR Short --> Tall
What am I?
antonym
I am a comparison that uses “like” or “as”.
What am I?
Simile
My last day at Overbrook was bittersweet.
What figurative language strategy is this sentence using?
oxymoron
I am a story that take place in a particular time setting from the past. I feature historical people, places, or events. Some elements are imagined.
What am I?
Historical Fiction
You can find me in the repetition of beginning consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables.
What am I?
alliteration
I am a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language.
Bad --> awful, terrible, horrible
What am I?
synonym
I often give something unhuman, actual human qualities. Think Finding Nemo and Monsters Inc.
What am I?
Personification
I came home to a kitchen full of cookies. I felt like the treats kept calling me.
What figurative language strategy is this sentence using?
personification
Dragons! Mermaids! Talking bears! Oh my! I am a fictional story that contains elements that are not realistic.
What am I?
Fantasy
I am a set amount of lines in poetry grouped together by their length, meter or rhyme scheme. The paragraphs of poetry.
What am I?
Stanza
I am two or more words spelled the same but not necessarily pronounced the same and having different meanings and origins.
Think: BARK (dog action vs. what is on a tree)
What am I?
homographs
I am a figure of speech that makes a reference to a place, person, or event. Apple --> Original Sin
What am I?
allusion
To my dog, our neighborhood park is the Garden of Eden.
What figurative language strategy is this sentence using?
allusion
I am a a novel in comic-strip form.
What am I?
graphic novel
I am a two-line stanza. What do you call me?
A couplet
I am two or more words that have the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling.
Think: "Flower” and “flour”
What am I?
homophones
I name a thing or an action by imitating the sound associated with it.
What am I?
onomatopoeia
Emily sat in her seat as quiet as a mouse.
What figurative language strategy is this sentence using?
simile
Zeus, Poseidon, and Athena! I am a story of creation or about culture’s gods. Think Greek or Roman.
What am I?
Myth
I am a four-line stanza. What do you call me?
Quatrain
I am an idea or feeling that a word invokes. Often positive or negative.
We have a GUEST. VS. We have an INTRUDER.
What am I?
connotation
I am a figure of speech with contradictory (opposite) terms. Ex. "old news” or “organized chaos"
What am I?
oxymoron
Life is like a box of chocolates—you never know what you're gonna get.
What figurative language strategy is this sentence using?
analogy (simile)