Types of Writing
Parts of a Story
Literary Devices
Sound Devices
Figurative Language
100

How literature is categorized based on literary conventions

What is Genre

100

This is where a story takes place in time and location

What is Setting

100

When an author intentionally makes a reference to another work, such as another piece of literature, a piece of artwork, or a time, place, or person.

What is Allusion

100

When words that sound alike are paired together or near each other.

What is Rhyme

100

Compares two things where one is the other.

What is Metaphor

200

A type of literary art form where writers use figurative language and other poetic devices to get the point of their subject across

What is Poetry

200

Protagonist, antagonist, hero/heroine are the people who move the plot along and the reason that many readers stay with a story

What is Character

200

Words used to evoke pictures in the minds of the readers.

What is Imagery

200

Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

What is Alliteration

200

Compares two things using like or as.

What is Simile

300

A type of narrative literature that contains imaginary characters and events.

What is Fiction

300

This is how the story is told by the narrator or author; either first, second, or third person.

What is Point of view

300

An exaggeration.

What is Hyperbole

300

Words that represent sounds.

What is Onomatopoeia

300

This is where animals or inanimate objects are given human qualities.

What is Personification

400

A type of literature written about someone by another person.

What is Biography

400

Is the central idea or message of the story.

What is Theme

400

Words used that often mean something different or the opposite of what they mean.

What is Irony

400

Combination of accented and unaccented syllables which often form a pattern.

What is Meter

400

Type of phrase where the meanings cannot be inferred by the literal meaning of the words.

What is Idiom

500

A type of narrative that often involves human suffering, including death, in the story.

What is Tragedy

500

Words used to express how the author feels about the text.

What is Tone

500

Happens when the storyteller or narrator builds excitement in a scene, often prior to the climax.

What is Suspense

500

Pattern of words or phrases that repeats throughout a literary work.

What is Refrain

500

An expression intended for a humorous or rhetorical effect by exploiting different meanings of words

What is Pun