POV
Figurative Language
Definitions
Definitions 2
Figurative Language 2
100

A character in the story is telling the story. You know the actions and dialogue of other characters, but everything is from the narrator's POV.

What is first person?

100

Repeating the same letter at the start of many words in a row.

What is alliteration?

100

A writing style where you jump back in time in certain parts of the story.

What is flashback?

100

Lesson or message meant to take away from a story.

What is the theme?

100

Words that sound like what they are

What is an onomatopoeia?

200

The perspective from which a story is told.

What is POV?

200

An exaggeration.

What is a hyperbole?

200

Conversation between characters.

What is dialogue?

200

An actual line from the story that is used to support a response.

What is text evidence?

200

Giving inanimate objects human-like abilities.

What is personification?

300

The narrator is outside of the story and only knows the feelings of one character.

What is 3rd person limited?

300

An expression that cannot be understood based on the meaning of the words alone.

What is an idiom?

300

A response to a prompt that is shorter.

What is an SCR?

300

The main idea or focus of an essay.

What is a thesis?

300

A comparison using like or as.

What is a simile?

400

The narrator is outside of the story but has full access to the feelings of all characters.

What is 3rd person omniscient?

400

The opposite of what is usual.

What is irony?

400

A response to a prompt that is extended.

What is an ECR?

400

How an author chooses to organize the information in the text.

What is the organizational pattern?

400

Putting two opposite words together. Such as awfully good.

What is an oxymoron?

500

Usually used in non-fiction to give directions and instructions.

What is 2nd person?

500

A comparison of two unlike things that suggests a similarity.

What is a metaphor?

500

Facts and examples that clarify the claim or thesis.

What are supporting details?

500

A type of thesis.

What is a claim?

500

A word or words that are formed to sound alike, but have more than one possible meaning.

What is a pun?