This figure of speech compares two unlike things using like or as.
What is as simile?
100
This genre involves a short story that teaches a lesson or moral.
What is a fable?
100
This is the place and time in which a play, novel, or film is represented as happening.
What is setting?
100
This is when a thing represents or stands for something else.
What is a symbol?
100
This is a person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
200
This figure of speech involves giving human-like qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
200
This genre is anything that is not poetry.
What is prose?
200
This is another word for the main character or hero of the story.
What is protagonist?
200
This is an idea or object that reoccurs multiple times in a text.
What is a motif?
200
This is an action word; it's something you can do.
What is a verb?
300
This figure of speech uses extreme exaggeration for effect.
What is hyperbole?
300
This genre involves an illustration, poem, or short story that has a hidden meaning.
What is an allegory?
300
This is the perspective from which a story is being told.
What is point of view?
300
This is an indirect reference to something that others will recognize
What is an allusion?
300
This word describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
400
This figure of speech compares two unlike things in order to provide a clearer description.
What is a metaphor?
400
This genre involves language that expresses ideas, emotions, or experiences in a vivid and imaginative way.
What is poetry?
400
This is the feeling or state of mind being created in a text.
What is mood?
400
This is the writer's attitude towards the subject being discussed.
What is tone?
400
This word describes verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
What is an adverb?
500
This figure of speech is when you use words to show a meaning that is the opposite of it's literal meaning; OR an outcome of events contrary to what was expected to happen.
What is irony?
500
This genres uses humor, irony, exaggeration, sarcasm, or ridicule to expose and criticize other people's stupidity or vices.
What is satire?
500
This is when the author gives hints to the reader about what is going to happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
500
This is the author's message in a text when considering all of its elements.