Literature
Parts of the Story (Plot)
Context Clues
Figurative Language
Parts of Speech
100

Short story about a man who sets out to colonize Mars.

What is Green Morning?

100

Beginning of the story in which background information, characters, and the setting are introduced.

What is Exposition?

100

"Endeavor, a serious, determined effort or a specific project undertaken to achieve a goal, can be used as a verb or a noun." 

The above is an example of: 

What is definition?

100

Uses "like" or "as" to make a comparison

What is a simile?

100

Person, place, or thing.

What is a noun?

200

Dystopian short story in which 12 year-olds must take a test in which the child can be put to death if he or she proves to be too smart. 

What is "Test"?

200

The part of the story, after the conflict is introduced, in which the story gets more and more suspenseful, or "the plot thickens."

What is Rising Action?

200

Roots, affixes, and base words

What are word parts?

200

Helps to paint a picture in the reader's mind

What is figurative language?

200

A word used to describe a noun. 

What is an adjective?

300

A message conveyed by the interaction of story elements

What is theme?

300

The highest point of interest in the story. It is sometimes called the turning point of the story.

What is the climax?

300

Mike’s parrot was loquacious, but Maria’s said very little.

What is an example of contrast?

300

A reference to a literary work, historical event or person, mythology, religion, or pop culture.

What is allusion?

300

An action or state of being. 

What is a verb?

400

Classic Horror Fiction short story in which we get the 1st person thoughts of the main character as he described the events leading to his murder of an old man simply because of his "evil" eye. 

What is "The Tell-Tale Heart"

400

Point of the story in which the main conflict in the story is resolved. 

What is Resolution?

400

Synonyms, antonyms, definition, example, roots and affixes­

What are types of context clues?

400

Similes, metaphors, allusion, alliteration, hyperbole, onomatopoeia

What are figures of speech?

400

A word which further explains (or modifies) a verb. It tells HOW something was done. It often ends in -ly.

What is an adverb?

500

Dystopian Fiction short story in which a traditional yearly event ends in tragedy for a family of a small, tight-knit village.

What is The Lottery?

500

The part of the story, after the climax, that is sometimes described as "the calm after the storm," in which the conflicts within the story BEGIN to be resolved.

What is Falling Action?

500

­­Celestial bodies, such as the sun, moon, and stars, are governed by predictable laws.

­What is the use of example?

500

“All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.”

What is a metaphor?

500

Word that takes the place of a noun. Examples are he, she, they, them, her, him, it.

What are pronouns?