Fiction
Poetry
Non-Fiction, Expository
Drama
Dictionary
100

People, animals, or imaginary creatures that take part in the action.

What is a character?

100

The narrator of the poem.

What is the speaker?

100

Proof to back up an argument.

What is evidence?

100

The author of the play.

What is a playwright?

100

The words at the top of each page that tell you the 1st through the last entry on the page. 

What are guide words?

200

The struggle between two opposing forces.

What is conflict?

200

The feeling the author creates.

What is mood?

200

The story of a person’s life told by someone else.

What is biography?

200

Conversation between characters. 

What is dialogue?

200

A word that does not have a prefix or suffix. 

What is a root word?

300

How the story is told.

What is Point-of-View?

300

Main message about life from the poem or story.

What is theme?

300

 The reason why an author writes.

What is author's purpose?

300

Short section of a play; marks change in time and place.

What is a scene?

300

The meaning of the entry word.


What is definition?

400

A struggle that takes place inside of a character. 

What is internal or internal conflict?

400

Imaginative language used to express ideas that are not literal.

What is figurative meaning?

400

A small part of the big picture.

What is a detail?

400

A form of literature intended to be performed. 

What is a play?

400

How a word sounds; the symbols in parenthesis that explain the sound of the word.

What is pronunciation?

500

A small piece of a larger piece of writing. 

What is an excerpt?

500

Writing that uses sensory words to create an image in the reader’s mind.

What is imagery?

500

Grouping things or people in certain ways based on a whole group and not the individual.  

What is stereotyping?

500

Tells how the play is to be performed.

What are stage directions?

500

The study of language.

What is linguistics?