A story to be performed, consisting of acts
and scenes.
What is a play?
100
Groups of lines that
have been separated
from other groups of
lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
100
A figure of speech that compares two unlike
things using the words “like” or “as”.
What is a simile?
200
A book that tells a long story about made-up people and events.
What is a novel?
200
The shifting back to events
that took place at an earlier
time, allowing the narrator
to compare what is currently
occurring in the story with
what occurred earlier.
What is a flashback?
200
A figure of speech that compares two unlike
things without using “like: or “as;” a way of
describing something by calling it something else.
What is a metaphor?
300
A piece of writing set out in short lines, often with noticeable rhythm.
What is a poem?
300
A hint, or suggestion,
of what’s to come.
What is foreshadowing?
300
The angle from which a story is told.
What is Point of View?
400
A book in which the
author tells the story
of someone else’s life.
What is a biography?
400
An extended solo speech by a character in a play
(or sometimes a poem)
What is a monologue?
400
A literary device in
which the author
attributes human qualities, feelings, or actions,
to non-human objects.
What is personification?
500
A book in which the
author tells the story
of his or her own life.
What is an autobiography?
500
The contrast between
what is said and what
is meant, or between the appearance of things
and their reality.