Literary Terms (1)
Literary Terms (2)
MLA
Writing Process
Reading Terms
100
What is reference to a person, place, thing, or idea?
Allusion
100
What is the term when the audience knows something that a character does not know?
Dramatic Irony
100
What is the amount of lines that is needed in order to have a block quote?
over 3 lines or 4 or more
100
What does HOTT stand for?
hook, overview, thesis, topics
100
What is a claim?
What the writer or speaker wants to prove.
200
What is a foil?
an opposite
200
What is a protagonist?
Main character
200
What is after the name of the teacher in a MLA heading?
Class - English II C
200
What does TEAL stand for?
Topic sentence, evidence, analysis, link
200
What is the term used to look up the origin of a word and how it has changed over time?
etymology
300
What is another term that means word choice?
Diction
300
What is a play on words?
Pun
300
What is the correct way to quote the sentence below? Close to one-third of the US could use financial help said Ted Turner on page 126.
"Close to one-third of the US could use financial help." (Turner 126).
300
What does STOP stand for?
Summarize, restate thesis, omit any new information, powerful clincher
300
What is ethos?
ethics/Ethical statements (quotes)
400
What is a long speech in which a character who is alone onstage expresses private thoughts or feelings?
soliloquy
400
What is another word for persuasion?
Rhetoric
400
What is the margin size in MLA?
1 inch margins (bottom, top, left, right)
400
What does not go in formal writing?
slang, 1st or 2nd person, abbreviations, contractions
400
What is pathos?
Emotional appeals (stories, experiences)
500
What is all the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests?
Connotation
500
What is the part of speech of the underlined word in the sentence: The camel is very dirty and smelly. ____
Adjective
500
What is the proper way to indent your works cited? Do you indent the first line or the second line and continuing?
second line and continuing
500
What are the four areas that the writing is graded?
Content, organization, voice, conventions
500
What is logos?
Logical (statistics)
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