Genre
Plot Diagram
Literary Terms
About the Story
Miscellaneous
100
A play that has a happy ending.
What is a comedy?
100
The most exciting part of the story.
What is the climax?
100
Compares two unlike objects.
What is a metaphor?
100
What you read plus what you know.
What is inference?
100
Words that mean the opposite.
What are antonyms?
200
A story that has gods or goddesses and often accounts for the creation of something.
What is a myth?
200
The events that lead before the climax.
What is the rising action?
200
Compares two objects using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
200
Presenting information from the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
What is summary?
200
Words that have the same meaning.
What are synonyms?
300
A writing that attempts to influence the reader?
What is a persuasive writing?
300
The events in the story after the climax.
What is the falling action?
300
The repetition of the same initial letter sound.
What is alliteration?
300
The most important or central thought of the text.
What is the main idea?
300
Where you look for guide words to narrow down the page the word is on.
What is a dictionary?
400
A writing that is based on or around a person or event from history.
What is a historical fiction?
400
The events in the story that solves the problem or tell how the story ends.
What is the resolution?
400
An exaggeration that is so dramatic no one would believe the statement is true.
What is hyperbole?
400
A restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning another form.
What is paraphrasing?
400
The overall feelings or emotions that are created in the order.
What is mood?
500
A story that usually is set in the American frontier where the main character has exaggerated strengths, skills, or size. The tone of the author is humorous.
What is a tall tale?
500
The part in the story that tells the setting and sets up about the main character.
What is the exposition?
500
The human characteristics that are given to an animal or object.
What is personification?
500
Description of how events lead to another.
What is cause and effect?
500
The authors attitude toward the subject.
What is tone?