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Literary Elements
Literary Devices
Literary Genres
Vocabulary
Bonus
100
The underlying meaning or message of a work.
What is the theme of a story?
100
An imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing. For example: "All the world's a stage."
What is a metaphor?
100
A genre of fiction in which the stories often tell about science and the technology of the future.
What is science fiction?
100
The Latin root for good.
What is"bene"?
100
The character in a story that works against the protagonist
What is the antagonist?
200
The pattern of events told in a story which includes a beginning, middle and end.
What is the plot?
200
A comparison between two unlike things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
200
A genre in which a specific time or event from history is portrayed in a work of fiction.
What is historical fiction?
200
The Latin root for bad.
What is "mal"?
200
The problem of the story occurs between the protagonist and the antagonist that helps to propel the plot.
What is the conflict?
300
The perspective from which the story is told.
What is point of view?
300
The use of words that sound like what they are describing like "Bam!"
What is onomatopoeia?
300
A story that has been passed down from one generation to the next. It may be based partly in history but has not been verified as truth.
What is a legend?
300
The Latin root for mother.
What is "mater"?
300
The descriptive details that the writer uses to bring a fictional character to life such as how he/she looks, thinks, talks, and feels.
What is characterization?
400
The main character in a play, novel, or story.
What is the protagonist?
400
A person, place or object that stands for something outside of itself, such as an idea or feeling (Rose = Love)
What is symbolism?
400
A children's tale that usually involves magical creatures like elves, goblins, witches and fairies. (i.e. Cinderella)
What is a fairy tale?
400
The Greek root for false.
What is "pseudo"?
400
A word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language. For example: unmistakable=obvious
What is a synonym?
500
The place and time in which the story takes place.
What is the setting.
500
Words and phrases that appeal to the reader's senses of sight, smell, sound, taste or touch.
What is imagery?
500
Writing that is factual about real people and real events.
What is non-fiction?
500
The Greek root for fear.
What is "phobia"?
500
A word OPPOSITE in meaning to another (e.g., bad and good).
What is an antonym?