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Begins with a "c"
Genres
anything goes
Figures of speech
Poetry
100
a struggle between opposing characters or forces
What is conflict
100
stories that deal with REAL people, REAL events and REAL places is called...
What is nonfiction
100
the writer
What is an author
100
comparison of two unlike things using like or as
What is a simile
100
when you look at the last word in each line of a poem to determine rhyming words this is called
What is rhyme scheme
200
the people that live in a story
What are characters
200
If I write my own life story it would be...
What is an autobiography
200
the standpoint from which a story is told
What is point of view
200
a direct comparison of two unlike things
What is metaphor
200
stories are divided into paragraphs poems are divided into...
What are stanzas
300
the point in the story that creates the grestest suspense or interest (a.k.a. turning point)
What is climax
300
I am the only type of writing that has meter and rhyme scheme...
What is poetry
300
the life lesson that a story teaches is called
What is theme
300
giving unhuman things human characteristics
What is personification
300
I have five lines my rhyme scheme has to be...(a,a,b,b,a) what am I?
What is a limerick
400
putting events in the order they happen
What is chronology or chronological order
400
a work of literature meant to be performed I am another word for play...
What is drama
400
a way of speaking that is specific to a group of people
What is dialect
400
something that has meaning in and of itself but can stand for something beyond itself
What are symbols
400
a poem that tells a story...
What is a narrative poem
500
this is the use of familiar words to determine the unknown words in a sentence
What is context clues
500
an exaggerated, far-fetched story that is untrue but told as if it were real
What is a tall-tale
500
any writing that is not poetry (hint...I rhyme with a flower)
What is PROSE
500
an extreme exaggeration
What is a hyperbole
500
the writer of a poem is called...
What is a poet