Fiction
Poetry
DAILY DOUBLES
Drama
Nonfiction
Lagniappe
100

This is the term for "the problem of the story."

What is the conflict?

100

Poetry is divided into _________ rather than sentences. 

What is a line? 

100

This is a conversation between two people. 

What is dialogue?

100

This is the reason why the speaker is giving the speech.

What is the author's purpose?

100

This is the term for when you compare two unlike things without using like or as.

What is a metaphor?

200

This is considered the message of the story. 

What is the theme?

200

This is a group of lines.

What is a stanza?

200
Biographies are written in ________.

What is third-person?

200

This man was the contemporary of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Who is Malcolm X?

300

This is considered the highest point of the story. 

What is the climax?

300

This is a device authors use to make their poetry sound pleasing to the ear. An example of this is alliteration. 

What is a sound device?

300

This dictates the actions of characters while they were on stage. They are usually in parentheses. 

What are stage directions?

300

Autobiographies are written in ________.

What is first-person?

300

This is the name of an autobiography about a man who taught himself to read and write and escaped slavery.

What is The Narrative of Frederick Douglass?


400

This occurs during the end of the story, where the conflict is solved.

What is the resolution?

400

This is identifying the pattern of a poem using letters from the alphabet. For example, aa bb cc dd ee. 

What is a rhyme scheme?

400

This is who the speech is intended for.

What is an audience?

400

He was a famous author of the Harlem Renaissance and wrote the poem "Harlem." (What happens to a dream deferred?"

Who is Langston Hughes?

500

This takes place in the beginning of the story, where the author introduces the characters and setting.

What is exposition?

500

This is language used in poetry to create images in the reader's mind and give new insights. An example is a hyperbole. 

What is figurative language?

500

Drama is structured through _________.

What is dialogue?

500
The four examples of an author's purpose. 

What is to persuade, inform, entertain, or inspire?

500

The title of this play was based off of a line of Langston Hughes' poem Harlem

What is A Raisin in the Sun?