person or people who read a text or listen to a spoken text.
What is the audience?
100
"May the force be with you" is said by multiple characters in this trilogy.
What is Star Wars?
100
nonfiction composition that usually explores or develops a single topic. formal or informal, depending on the writers purpose and audience. typically has four elements (one or more) argument, description, exposition, or narration.
What is an essay?
100
repetition of the initial sound.
What is alliteration?
100
refers to the concept that a game or contest is not over until all possible efforts are exalted. term came from the opera,
What is "It's not over until the fat lady sings"?
200
a rather vague, metaphorical term used to refer to the distinctive features of a particular writer or text. Details, diction, imagery, syntax, and tone are often considered the elements.
What is voice?
200
"You can't handle the truth!!!" was stated by Col. Nathan Jessep in this movie.
What is A Few Good Men?
200
a scene that interrupts the present action of the narrative in order to depict and earlier event.
What is a flashback?
200
a statement that initially seems contradictory and nonsensical but upon further examination, makes sense.
"We must fight for peace'
What is a paradox?
200
known as "Shrove Tuesday", "Pancake Tuesday", and "mardi gras. The term originally meant as a "Farewell to meat", the food the Christians abstained from during the Lenten season.
What is Fat Tuesday?
300
the reason a writer has for creating a text
What is purpose?
300
"The only thing to fear is fear itself" was said by this American President.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
300
the nonfictional account of a person's life, told by another person
What is a biography?
300
repetition of words, phrases, and/or clauses at the beginning of successive lines or sentences.
"it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness"
What is anaphora?
300
a society free of pain and suffering. any ideal state
Sir Thomas Moore's novel describes his vision for the future.
What is a utopia?
400
the reason for writing, as well as the context in which the writing takes place.
What is the occasion?
400
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names" was said by this 20th century American President.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
400
a narrative technique in which an author attempts to capture the flow of thoughts and sensory impressions of characters as they pass through his or her mind. Joyce, Faulkner, and Woolf do this.
What is stream of consciousness?
400
repetition of consonant sounds, following different vowel sounds.
‘T was later when the summer went
Than when the cricket came,
And yet we knew that gentle clock
Meant nought but going home.
‘T was sooner when the cricket went
Than when the winter came,
Yet that pathetic pendulum
Keeps esoteric time.
What is consonance?
400
a literary womanizer; the term now refers to any man who is irresistible to woman and constantly pursues them,
What is a Don Juan?
500
support for a thesis in the form of stories, or anecdotes; may be personal, historical, and/or contemporary in nature.
What are narrative examples?
500
"The only way to have a friend is to be one" was said by this American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the Transcendental movement.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
500
means characterized by a narrow, often tiresome, focus on learning, usually emphasizing the minute details.
What is pedantic?
500
useed in many works of literature to show foolishness or vice in humans, organizations, or even governments - it uses sarcasm, ridicule, or irony; often used to effect political or social change, or to prevent it.
What is satire?
500
the noble conspirator of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar who eventually partook in the murder of Caesar.