Figurative Language
Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Story Elements
Poetry
100
Comparing two things using like or as
What is a simile?
100
A word that means the opposite of another word
What is an antonym?
100
A word that means the same thing as another word
What is a synonym?
100
When and where the story takes place
What is the setting?
100
When several words have the same ending sounds
What is rhyme?
200
When the same sound or letter is used at the beginning of several words in a sentence.
What is alliteration?
200
When the author is trying to get you to think or act like them
What is persuade or convince?
200
The reason the author wrote the story
What is author's purpose?
200
How the problem in the story is solved
What is the resolution?
200
This is a paragraph in a poem
What is a stanza?
300
Comparing two things without using like or as
What is a metaphor?
300
When you use clues in the story to draw your own conclusions about what is going on
What is making an inference?
300
When a narrator is telling the story
What is 3rd person?
300
Telling the most important parts of the story in 1-3 sentences.
What is summarize?
300
These poems do not have to have a rhyme pattern
What is free verse?
400
Giving human qualities or characteristics to a non-living object
What is personification?
400
When the person in the story is telling the story
What is 1st person?
400
This means who is telling the story
What is point of view?
400
Another word for the problem in the story
What is conflict?
400
When a line or words are repeated several times
What is repetition?
500
Using extreme exaggeration to explain or describe something
What is a hyperbole?
500
These are used in a drama or play to tell the reader where the story is taking place and what is going on at the time
What is stage directions?
500
This is used to picture what is going on in the story
What is imagery?
500
The moral or lesson learned in the story.
What is theme?
500
This poem is created by writing the title in capital letters vertically down the paper and using each letter to generate the content of a line of poetry
What is an acrostic poem?