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About the Story
About Writing
Literary Terms
Analogies
Idioms
100
The main story of a literary work
What is plot
100
writing that is based on facts
What is non-fiction?
100
when you give human traits to an animal or inanimate object
What is personification?
100
fingers are to hand as ________ are to feet
What are toes?
100
it's raining hard
What is it's raining cats and dogs?
200
The person who does the art work for a story
What is the illustrator
200

The person who writes a poem, sometimes called a bard

What is the poet?

200

making a comparison with 'like' or 'as'

What is a simile?

200
"baa" is to sheep as __________ is to cats.
What is "meow"?
200
It's not going to happen
What is when pigs fly?
300

a story someone writes someone's life

What is a biography?

300
a letter written to convince someone to do or believe something
What is persuasive writing?
300

making a comparison *without* using like or as

What is a metaphor?

300
fish are to the ocean as camels are to the________.
What is desert?
300
two things that can't be compared
What is like apples and oranges?
400
the time and place of the story
What is setting?
400

An essay written to inform.

An expository or informational essay.

400

a series of words that have the same first sound

What is alliteration?

400
English is to the United states as __________ is to Guatemala.
What is Spanish?
400
almost impossible to find
What is like finding a needle in a haystack?
500

the broad main idea, in word word, woven throughout a story

What is the theme?

500

the type of writing that tells a story

What is narrative?

500

the use of words that suggest the natural sound - for example: The bubbles popped in the bottle. I heard the tinkle of ice cubes in the glass of tea. A fish saying "glub, glub, glub."

What is onomatopoeia?

500
video is to see as ___________ is to hear.
What is audio?
500
Being on time, or on top of one's responsibilities

What is on the ball?