Literary Terms
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- Q1a type of literature that tells about real-life people, places, events, things, etc.non-fiction30s
- Q2a play written to be performed by actorsdrama30s
- Q3a folktale (fictional story) about gods and goddesses (mythology)myth30s
- Q4an American hero folktale full of extreme exaggerationstall tale30s
- Q5a folktale, usually with talking animals, that always has a moral to itfable30s
- Q6what a piece of writing is mainly aboutmain idea30s
- Q7gives the main idea and important details of a passagesummary30s
- Q8a more generally stated topic concerning a passage's main ideastheme30s
- Q9a classification of literature, such as fiction, drama, poetry, etc.genre30s
- Q10a type of literature that tells a made-up storyfiction30s
- Q11a comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"simile30s
- Q12a comparison that shows a relationship between two thingsanalogy30s
- Q13a comparison of two unlike things not using the words "like" or "as"metaphor30s
- Q14restating something using different words (rephrasing)paraphrase30s
- Q15words, phrases, or sentences that give meaning to unknown wordscontext clues30s