GRIT
PLOT
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
PARTS OF SPEECH
MISCELLANEOUS
100

Doing the right thing when even when no one is watching.

What is Integrity?

100

The highest point of interest, the place where ideas are drawn together, an important turning point in a series of actions, or the most forceful event in a story.

What is the Climax?

100

A comparison between two unrelated things using the words as or like.

What is a Simile?

100

She is excited to be attending middle school next year! 

What is the pronoun in this sentence?

What is She?

100

What is a word with the same or similar meaning?

What is a Synonym?

200

The ability to recover quickly from difficulties; bouncing back and moving forward

What is Resilience?

200

The beginning of the story where the characters and setting is introduced. 

What is an Exposition?

200

"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" is an example of...

What is Alliteration?

200

The anxious girl waits for her schedule in the office. 


What word in this sentence is the adjective?

What is anxious?

200

Bang and Beep are examples of...

What is an Onomatopoeia? 

300

The quality of being thankful; showing appreciation

What is Gratitude?

300

The events leading to the end of the story.

What is the Falling Action?

300

A comparison between two unrelated things.

What is a metaphor?

300

The bear goes under the water to search for fish.

Which word is a preposition?

What is under?

300

What do you call an incomplete sentence?

What is a sentence fragment?

400

The quality of being very determined; showing persistence.

What is Tenacity? 

400

Where the main character faces a series of conflicts.

What is the Rising Action?

400

Giving non-human objects human qualities.

What is Personification?

400

Which of the following words can be both a noun AND verb

the       orange        play

What is play?

400

What do you call the person or voice that tells the story?

What is the narrator?

500

Mrs. Cruz didn't get a good grade on her exam. She was disappointed at first, but she shook it off and spent an entire week to review for the makeup test. She was determined to earn a better grade. This is an example of...

What is resilience and tenacity?

500

What happens at the very end of the story?

What is a Resolution?

500

An obvious exaggeration.

What is a Hyperbole?

500

Which of the following is NOT an example of an adverb?

cook        quickly        fast

What is cook?

500

What do you call a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning?

What is an inference?