This sub-genre is often based on a scientific theory, like aliens.
What is science fiction
100
Writing about events that made up a person's life, but written by another person.
What is a biography
100
A comparison of two things using the word like or as.
What is a simile
100
The pattern of rhyming lines.
What is a rhyme scheme
100
Inspires certain feelings in the reader and is determined by word choice, setting, and characters' actions, thoughts, and dialogue.
What is mood
200
The Vikings' stories of how the world was made is an example of this sub-genre of fiction.
What is a myth
200
A short piece of writing on a particular subject.
What is an essay
200
This figurative language involves using language that creates an image in your mind by engaging one or more of your five senses.
What is imagery
200
Two lines of verse next to each other that rhyme.
What is a couplet
200
A break in time order in a story, when the author reveals something that occurred in the past before the time the story is set in.
What is a flashback
300
This story was probably written down many years after it was first told.
What is a folktale
300
Writing about events that happened in a real person's life and written by that person.
What is an autobiography
300
"You're a bull in a china shop-"
What is a metaphor
300
The series of lines arranged together in a group or section.
What is stanza
300
The events in the plot of a story after the conflict is revealed but before the conflict must be faced, usually the body of the story.
What is rising action
400
A brief story that teaches a moral or religious lesson and usually has speaking animals as characters.
What is a fable
400
An annual publication including calendars with weather forecasts, astronomical information, tide tables, and other related tabular information.
What is an almanac
400
The campfire hissed angrily as we extinguished it with a bucket of water.
What is personification
400
The repeated patterns of sound in poetry.
What is rhythm
400
A perspective or telling of a story in which a person who is outside the story can narrate the action.
What is third-person point of view
500
A work of fiction that is usually written in prose and usually in narrative format.
What is a short story
500
A comprehensive reference work containing articles on a wide range of subjects or on numerous aspects of a particular field, usually arranged alphabetically.
What is an encyclopedia
500
A metaphor that is used throughout a story or poem, and which is central to the passage.
What is an extended metaphor
500
A poem containing a long plot relating the adventures of a hero.
What is an epic poem
500
This book feature is an alphabetical listing of subjects found in the text along with the page numbers where they can be located and is usually located at the end of the text.