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Point of View
Plot
Poetic Techniques
Anything
Anything Else
100
I, me, we, us, etc.
What is first person?
100
The end of a story.
What is the resolution?
100
Mr. Cooley kicked the cat through the kitchen calmly.
What is alliteration?
100
A category used to classify writing, usually by form or content (action, mystery, romance, poetry)
What is genre?
100
The 'emotions' of a work or of the author in his or her creation of the work.
What is mood?
200
They, he, she, her, him, them, etc.
What is third person point of view?
200
The beginning of a story.
What is the exposition or introduction?
200
Moo! Buzz! Zip!
What is onomatopoeia?
200
The use of a word to mean the exact opposite of its literal or usual meaning, often sarcastically.
What is irony?
200
The attitude of the author toward the audience and characters (serious, humorous, dark)
What is tone?
300
When a character in the story is telling the story.
What is first person point of view?
300
When the conflict is really heating up.
What is the rising action?
300
The pattern of end-line rhyme that remains consistent throughout the poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
300
Something nonhuman which is given human qualities or human form.
What is personification?
300
A topic of discussion or writing: a major idea broad enough to cover the entire scope of a literary work. (Lesson about life)
What is theme?
400
When the speaker is not involved in the action of the story and knows the thoughts and feelings of most of the characters.
What is third person omniscient?
400
Climax or most suspenseful part of the story usually towards the end.
What is the turning point?
400
When one thing represents something else.
What is symbolism?
400
The author's central thought or chief topic.
What is main idea?
400
Information from the reading that hints at a word's meaning.
What is context clues?
500
A rarely used type of point of view in which the main character is "you."
What is second person point of view?
500
The event that causes the action to rise.
What is the inciting incident?
500
The other name for writing that looks like poetry.
What is verse?
500
A fairy-tale type story coming from spoken tradition.
What is a folktale?
500
The center of interest or attention.
What is focus?