A character that outsmarts another with wit, charm and deceit.
What is trickster?
100
A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit.
What is stanza?
100
Orange is like a juicy, ripe box of clementines.
What is a simile?
100
Nice, Friendly, Aggesive, Conceited, Arrogant, Helpful, Industrious, hard-working are all examples of these.
What are character traits?
100
Words in a script that direct the actors how to move or speak.
What are stage directions?
200
Slow and steady wins the race is the ____________ of The Tortoise and the Hare.
What is a moral?
200
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams DIE
Life is a broken winged bird
That cannot Fly.
What is end rhyme?
200
Friday we had french fries at Friday's.
What is alliteration?
200
The form of English used by a particular group of people (or a common geographic location). (exs. Southern twang, Boston accent)
What is dialect?
200
The perspective or vantage point from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
300
Some examples include: Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan, Calamity Jane and John Henry.
What is tall tales?
300
Did you hear 'bout Ticklish Tom?
He got tickled by his Mom.
WIGGLED and GIGGLED and fell on the floor,
Laughed and rolled right out the door.
What is internal rhyme?
300
The clouds are cotton balls in the sky.
What is a metaphor?
300
Hints about events that will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
300
red apple = temptation
white = innocence
crown = royalty, wealth
are all examples of this
What is symbolism?
400
The genre that has a motif of the number 3.
ex. The glass slipper fit on the 3rd attempt
What is a fairy tale?
400
Language that appeals to the five senses,
"The warm sand squishing between your toes."
What is imagery?
400
The trees danced with the breeze.
What is personification?
400
The emotions and feeling the reader has about the story.
What is mood?
400
The author's attitude towards what they are writing.
What is tone?
500
Poseidon, Hercules, Zeus and Athena appear in these stories.
What is myths?
500
Tuesdays the start of the test, A
be sure to try your best. A
You'll all do great. B
Just wait and see. C
What is rhyme scheme?
500
Paul Bunyan ate a thousand pancakes for breakfast.
What is hyperbole?
500
"never give up"
"evil never triumphs"
"blood is thicker than water"
are all examples of this.
What is theme?
500
You tell your parents you are sick to get out of going to school. Turns out the school needed to close due to emergency repairs. Everyone is out enjoying the day, but your parents make you stay in because you are "sick". This is an example of ________________.