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Figurative Language
Analyzing Text
Word Work
Literary Genres
Story Elements
100
A comparison using "like" or "as" (Example: The girl sprinted like a cheetah.)
What is a simile?
100
Finding the things that two or more items share, or how they are alike. (Example: The horses were both brown.)
What is a comparison?
100
A word that has a similar meaning to another word.
What is a synonym?
100
The class of literature that is derived from imagination - not based on real facts or events
What is fiction?
100
A set of events that make up a story (beginning, middle, and end)
What is plot?
200
When an animal or object uses human characteristics (Example: The tree waved goodbye.)
What is personification?
200
Finding the differences between two or more things. (Example: That horse is much larger than the other one.)
What is a contrast?
200
A group of letters added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning.
What is a prefix?
200
The class of literature that is derived from real facts or events
What is non-fiction?
200
The main lesson from a story
What is theme?
300
A set of words that begin with the same consonant sound (Example: Sally sold seashells by the seashore.)
What is alliteration?
300
A person, place, thing, or event that makes something happen.
What is a cause?
300
A group of letters added to the end of a word that changes its meaning.
What is a suffix?
300
The class of literature that is composed of events that could never really happen
What is fantasy?
300
The answer to the problem in a story
What is solution or resolution?
400
A comparison without using "like" or "as" (Example: He drowned in a sea of grief.)
What is a metaphor?
400
Something that can be proved as true.
What is a fact?
400
A word that has an opposite meaning of another word.
What is an antonym?
400
The class of literature that tells of a person's life from a first person point of view (written by that person)
What is an autobiography?
400
The problem in a story
What is conflict?
500
Using extreme exaggeration in a piece of writing. (Example: The cheeseburger was the temperature of the sun.)
What is a hyperbole?
500
The result of something that happens.
What is an effect?
500
Words that are spelled the same but have different meanings.
What is a homonym?
500
A class of literature composed of children's stories about magical and imaginary beings and lands
What is a fairy tale?
500
The feeling or emotion that comes to the reader, when reading a piece of literature
What is mood?