LITERARY TERMS
LITERARY TERMS
Literary Terms and Time Periods
RESEARCH AND THE WRITING PROCESS
USAGE AND CONVENTIONS
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A technique used by writers such as Patrick Henry, suggestion that their arguments make the answer obvious or self-evident. These questions do not require a reply.
What is a rhetorical question?
100
A character in the story who speaks directly to us and uses I
What is First Person Point of View?
100

The central idea or argument the author is trying to express on a topic. 

What is theme?

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The use of another's words or ideas, whether intentional or unintentional, and claiming them as your own.
What is plagiarism?
100

Choose the best sentence option

A. After I had studied for two hours without stopping. 

B. Studying hard for two hours without stopping. 

C. I studied hard for two hours without stopping. .

What is C

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A writer's attitude toward his subject, communicated through diction, choice of details, or ditect statements of his or her position. It reflects the feelings of the writer.
What is tone?
200

The author uses the five senses to create word pictures for the reader.

What is imagery?

200

The subject of a text not to be mistaken with the lesson or unifying idea.

What is the topic?
200
Brainstorming, diagramming your thoughts with a web or other visual aid, and outlining those ideas for a writing activity.
What is prewriting?
200

Select the INCORRECT sentence.

A. After I had studied hard for two hours without stopping. 

B. I studied hard for two hours without stopping.

 C. Studying hard for two hours without stopping is exhausting.

What is A?

300

the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

What is Satire?

300

The art of argument. Includes appeals and other strategies. 

What is rhetoric?

300
Writers from this time period, including Jonathan Edwards, William Bradford, and Anne Bradstreet, share religious enlightenment and provide a history of the time.
Who are Puritan writers?
300
This usually appears at the end of your first paragraph in a research paper, and should cover only what you will discuss in your paper.
What is a thesis statement?
300

Select the sentence with a fragment

A. Pretending he knew what she was talking about, he listened quietly. 

B. As he listened quietly, he pretended he knew what she was talking about. 

C. Pretending he knew what she was talking about and listening quietly.

What is C?

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The use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are related. An examples is seen in the Declaration of Independence with the use of “we have,” then a past tense verb, such as “We have Petitioned,” and “ we have conjured.” 

What is parallelism?

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"Small yellow creatures bob like dandelions in the field," is an example of the use of what literary device.
What is a Simile?
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The reason or intent that a piece of writing is created by an individual.

What is the author's purpose?

400

A style of writing that includes implementing outside sources and in compilation with an argument to build a cohesive paper.

What is Synthesis?

400

Identify if this is a sentence or fragment.

Going to games which we always lost.

What is a fragment?

500

In Macbeth the line "fair is foul and foul is fair" is an example of?

What is a paradox?

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A lengthy comparison between two unlike things without using the words like or as.
What is an extended metaphor?
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A literary movement that centers around the idea that humans have knowledge from nature that goes beyond what can be understood with the senses. (Hint: Dead Poet's Society)

What is Transcendentalism?

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In the conclusion of an argumentative or synthesis essay an essential line that provides the audience with the "next steps" to take.

What is a call to action. 

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Original sources of information; anything from firsthand documents, such as poems, diaries, court records, documents, and interviews to research results generated by experiments, surveys, etc.

What are Primary sources?

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