Plot
Figurative Language
Informational Texts
Genres
FUN
100

The main character is in crisis and events leading up to facing the conflict begin to unfold. The story becomes complicated.

What is Rising Action?
100

A comparison of two things using like or as.

What is a simile?

100

Factual writing about real people, places, ideas or things.

What is nonfiction?

100

This is generally a narrative form consisting of people, events, or places that are imaginary, and not real.

What is fiction?

100

What basketball team won the March Madness tournament this year?

Who is Baylor?

200

Where any unanswered questions are answered, or “loose ends are tied" at the end of a story.

What is the Resolution?

200

A comparison of two things without using like or as.

What is a metaphor?

200

Another word for "main idea" in an informational text.

What is central idea?

200

A type of fiction in which the setting is located at some point in the past.

What is historical fiction?

200

Led Zeppelin is an example of this genre of music.

What is Rock and Roll?

300

Typically, this is a villain of some kind, but not always! It’s just the opponent of the main character, or someone who gets in their way.

What is the antagonist?

300

An extreme exaggeration.

What is a hyperbole?

300

Proof in writing to explain your answer. Something that gives "fact" to your explanation.

What is textual evidence?

300

A type of literature that evokes feelings, thoughts, and uses rhythm as a basis for its structure.

What is poetry?

300

This is Squidward Tentacle's acquaintance who is always better than Squidward at everything (it's not Spongebob).

Who is SQUILLIAM?

400

This type of point of view is when the narrator is describing what’s seen, but as a spectator. This narrator has three possible perspectives. The narrator is typically NOT a part of the story.

What is Third Person POV?

400

Giving human like characteristics to something that is not human.

What is personification?

400

The reason for writing. To inform, explain, persuade, or entertain.

What is the Author's Purpose?

400
Another word for "paragraph" in a poem.

What is a stanza?

400

Finish this lyric: "Country Roads, ____ __ ____ "

Take Me Home

500

A type of Third Person Point of View in which the narrator sees all and knows all. 

What is Third Person Omniscient?

500
This is when a text references another external text, historical event, pop culture, or a place. 
What is an allusion?
500

A one or two sentence summary or preview of your paper's main point, main idea, or main message. This is in the first paragraph.

What is a thesis statement?

500

This is a story written about a person's life written by themselves.

What is an autobiography?

500

Harry Potter's close friend who is "the smart one."

Who is Hermoine?