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Genre
Figurative Language
Parts of Speech
Story Elements
SAT HOT Words
100
This book contains aliens, space ships, and futuristic settings.
What is science fiction
100
Jumbo shrimp is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is an oxymoron
100
This word is used to describe nouns. All color words, number words, the words A, AN, The, possessive pronouns are all considered this part of speech.
What is an adjective?
100
This is where the story takes place.
What is the setting?
100
This is a difficult or perplexing situation or problem. My best friend put me in a terrible _______ by stealing the blouse while we were shopping.
What is dilemma?
200
This book contains magic, and talking animals
What is fanciful fiction
200
The comparison of two unlike objects without the use of like or as is called this
What is a metaphor
200
This part of speech shows action.
What is a verb.
200
This is the introduction to the story.
What is the exposition?
200
This word means scattered fragments, wreckage. The plane which crashed left _______ all over the open field.
What is debris?
300
This book is based on actual events but the author embellishes the events and adds characters which did not exist.
What is historical fiction
300
That is the straw that broke the camels back ....is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is an idiom
300
This part of speech is a person, place, thing or idea.
What is a noun.
300
This part of the story is the most exciting part of the story and usually contains the turning point of the story.
What is the climax?
300
This word means to save from a fire or shipwreck. After the horrible fire in the apartment building there was little that we could _________.
What is salvage.
400
This book is not true but it is believeable.
What is realistic fiction
400
This type of figurative language gives human characteristics to animals and things which are not human.
What is personification.
400
This part of speech modifies adjectives and adverbs.
What is an adverb.
400
This part of the story leads to the resolution.
What is falling action?
400
This word means to stop the proceedings for a time. The judge had to ________ court because the defendant went on a rampage.
What is adjourn.
500
This book is about an actual person either living or dead but the author adds details and other events which did not actually happen.
What is biographical fiction.
500
I am so hungry I could eat a horse is an example of this type of figurative language
What is an onomatopoeia?
500
The words, in, on, over, under, to are all members of this part of speech.
What is a preposition?
500
This part of the story is the ending of the story.
What is the resolution?
500
This word means difficult or impossible to read. The teacher could not read the student's _______ handwriting.
What is illegible.