Figurative Language
Literary Elements
Genres
Text Structure
Gerald's Picks
100

A figure of speech where non-human things are given human-like qualities. 

Example: The mountain woke up and stretched his arms to the sky.

A. personification
B. humanification
C. tranformers
D. Blue Kool-Aid

What is personification?

100

The beginning of the story. 

A. introspection
B. introduction
C. entrance
D. enhance

What is the introduction?

100

Written stories about people or events that aren't true. 

A. fantasy
B. non-fiction
C. fiction
D. Philadelphia 

What is fiction?

100

Text follows steps and procedures. (First, next, then, finally)

A. problem/solution
B. sequence/procedure
C. description
D. spaceships

What is sequence/procedure? 

100

A word that has an opposite meaning to another word. 

Example: hot:cold

A. synonym
B. cinnamon
C. opponym
D. antonym

What is an antonym?

200

A comparison between two things that uses the words "like" or "as."

Example: Their smile was as bright as the Sun. 

A. metaphor
B. simile
C. dragonbreath
D. idiom

What is a simile? 

200

A series of events that moves the story along. 

A. plot
B. pilot
C. pilates
D. pop goes the weasel

What is plot?

200

Texts with true stories and real-life information. 

A. fiction
B. non-fiction
C. true stories
D. knock-knock jokes

What is non-fiction?

200

Text that shows how things are similar and/or different from each other.

A. contact and contract
B. compare and contrast
C. description
D. definition

What is compare and contrast? 

200

To try and convince a reader to agree with an opinion. 

A. persuade
B. perplex
C. Giant Panda
D. convince


What is persuade?

300

A comparison between two things that does not use "like" or "as."

Example: That song is pure gold

A. musician
B. manifold
C. metaphor
D. ballerina

What is a metaphor?

300

One of the people/things from a story.

A. Charmander
B. people
C. animals
D. character

What is a character?

300

Writing that is supposed to give the reader facts, details, and/or opinions. Usually has bold headings.

A. example text
B. informational text
C. narrative text
D. text message

What is informational text?

300

Uses imagery, examples, and details to help the reader understand characters, objects, and events. 

A. description
B. information
C. exciting
D. problem and solution

What is description? 

300

Part 1: When the narrator is part of the story and says "me," "I," or "we."

Part 2: When the narrator is not part of the story and uses "he," "she," or "they."

A. 1.first-person point of view 2.second-person point of view 

B. 1.third-person point of view 2.first-person point of view 

C. 1.second-person point of view 2.eighth-person point of view

D. 1.first-person point of view 2.third-person point of view 

What is first-person point of view and third-person point of view? 

400

When the same sound is repeated really close together.

Example: Bruno the baby bulldog buries his bone in the big backyard.

A. affiliation
B. alliteration
C. hyperbole
D. pineapple upside-down cake

What is alliteration? 

400

When and where events in the story take place. The time and place in the story. 

A. title
B. setting
C. sitting
D. rainbows 

What is the setting? 

400
Text that isn't really true, but it could be true and it makes sense.


A. realistic fantasy
B. realized friction
C. ramboozle frashby
D. realistic fiction

What is realistic fiction? 

400

Tells what is wrong and how it was, can be, or will be fixed. 

A. compare and contrast
B. cause and effect
C. problem and solution
D. pink slushies

What is problem and solution? 

400

When a word means the same thing as another word. 

Example: big:large

A. cymbal
B. synonym
C. antonym
D. same-thing words

What is a synonym? 

500

Language that makes the reader think of their senses.

Example: She loudly bit into the sour green apple. 

A. description
B. imagery
C. Wal-Mart
D. feeling

What is imagery?

500

How the story ends.

A. revolution
B. ending
C. resolution
D. rap music

What is the resolution? 

500
These genres can have a lesson, talking animals, magic characters, or other unusual elements. 


A. fable, myth, fairy-tale, legend
B. fable, myth, factual text, legend
C. legend, myth, factual text, fixed
D. fractions, math, Tuesday, eggs

What are fables, myths, fairy-tales, and legends? 

500

Tells how something made something else happen. 

A. compare and contrast
B. conquer and compose
C. cause and effect
D. dominoes 

What is cause and effect? 

500

Pick one of the numbers below. Say one way that the two texts are similar and one way that they are different.

1. The Wolf & the Lion and The Lion & the Mouse

2. Tails with Purpose and The Nose Awards

3. Manabozho and the Maple Trees and What the Ash and Maple Learned

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