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Poetry
Figurative Language
Literature
Drama
Mixed
100
A piece of writing that usually has figurative language and that is written in separate lines that often have a repeated rhythm and sometimes rhyme.
What is a poem.
100
When you use a word or phrase that does not have its normal everyday, literal meaning.
What is figurative language.
100
Words and phrases that provide a connection between ideas, sentences and paragraphs. They help to make a piece of writing flow better.
What is transition or transition words.
100
A piece of writing that tells a story and is performed on a stage.
What is a drama.
100
The moral message, or lesson of the story.
What is theme.
200
A poem made up of 14 lines that rhyme in a fixed pattern.
What is a sonnet.
200
A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as.
What is simile.
200
How the story is organized or the framework of the story.
What is structure.
200
A literary technique in which writers employ two or more characters to be engaged in conversation with each other.
What is dialogue.
200
A traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a provable basis of fact or a natural explanation, especially one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature.
What is a myth.
300
A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.
What is a haiku.
300
A figure of speech where human qualities are given to animals, objects or ideas.
What is personification.
300
What the text is mainly about.
What is central idea.
300
In drama, a ____ is a unit of action, often a subdivision of an act.
What is a scene.
300
A set of words that is complete in itself, typically containing a subject and predicate, conveying a statement, question, exclamation, or command.
What is a sentence.
400
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza.
400
A word, which imitates the natural sounds of a thing.
What is onomatopoeia.
400
The angle of considering things, which shows us the opinion, or feelings of the individuals involved in a situation.
What is point of view.
400
A long, usually serious speech that a character in a play makes to an audience and that reveals the character's thoughts.
What is a soliloquy.
400
A group of sentences or a single sentence that forms a unit.
What is a paragraph.
500
The author’s attitude toward a subject.
What is tone.
500
The comparison of one thing to another without the use of like or as.
What is metaphor.
500
The events that make up a story or the main part of a story. These events relate to each other in a pattern or a sequence (Exposition, Rising Action, Conflict, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution).
What is plot sequence.
500
Occurs when the audience knows something that the characters don't.
What is dramatic irony.
500
A sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence.
What is a phrase.