An example of this is "Time flies when you are having fun!"
What is an idiom?
100
This term is the word that means the time and place a story takes place.
What is the setting?
100
This term means a story written about their own life.
What is an autobiography?
100
Her stomach was a roller coaster of fear as she faced the test is an example of what kind of literary device?
What is metaphor?
200
"I was so hot I thought I might melt" is an example of this.
What is a hyperbole
200
This term is the person telling the story.
What is the narrator?
200
This type of story is usually set in the future and it's story is greatly affected by the setting.
What is Science Fiction?
200
This is what "Her stomach was a roller coaster of fear" would look like as a simile.
What is "Her stomach was like a roller coaster of fear."
200
These are 2 non-academic (not at school) things you can do to prepare for the SBAC test in order to get the best results
What are 1. get a good night's sleep and 2. eat a nutritious breakfast
300
Her sun kissed hair made me smile.
What is a personification?
300
If you are reading a story, it has a series of events. This term means "series of events"
What is plot?
300
Mary Downing Hahn uses the phrase "his breath smelled like peanut butter and something less pleasant". Although this detail is not important to the story line, this is an example of this type of literary device, which helps the reader access his sense of smell to draw him into the scene.
What is sensory imagery?
300
This is an expression that does not mean what it literally says.
What is an idiom?
400
"Wordlessly watching, he waits by the window and wonders." is an example of what type of literary device?
What is an alliteration
400
The term "inference" is when the reader uses these 2 things to make an educated guess about the text.
What is 1. the reader's own experience and 2. the information from the text.
400
In fictional books, the main character is the ________________ in the story.
What is protagonist?
400
"The leaves danced to the ground in the breeze" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is personification?
400
When you really want to get a point across of the severity of something in your story, this would be a good literary device to use.
What is hyperbole? or metaphor? or simile?
500
These 2 literary devices are used most often in poetry because of their focus on sounds.
What are alliteration and onomatopoeia?
500
This is the writer's "universal message" or lesson for a story they write.
What is theme?
500
This is a term for a piece of writing that is defending a position using facts and supporting details.
What is an argument?
500
Words like crash, bang, swoosh, are examples of this type of literary device.
What is an onomatopoeia?
500
These are all the stages of PLOT.
What are exposition, rising actions, climax, falling actions and resolution?