A thesis statement is a sentence that states the main idea of a writing assignment.
What is a thesis statement?
100
A stanza is like a paragraph in a poem.
What is a stanza?
100
The establishing shot is an extreme-long term shot that is used to indicate the setting in the beginning of a scene.
Explain what an establishing shot is.
100
Similes use the words like or as and a metaphor directly states a comparison.
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
100
A vessel is a ship or large boat.
What is a vessel?
200
Otherwise, Although, Unlike, Whereas, On the other hand, In spite of, however.
List as many transitions words that oppose a statement.
200
A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
What is an elegy?
200
A cross-cut can be used in films to establish action occurring at the same time, and usually in the same place.
When can a cross cut be used?
200
When two people are engaged to be married but the audience knows that the man is planning to run away with another woman.
Give an example of dramatic irony.
200
Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
300
Textual support is evidence from a text that can illustrate your ideas and support your arguments.
What is textual support?
300
A lyric poem in the form of and address to the particular subject.
What does ode mean?
300
An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly.
What is an allusion?
300
A length of cloth or a developing garment in which a dead person is wrapped for burial.
What is a Shroud?
400
A thesis statement is commonly found in the beginning of an essay.
A thesis statement is found where?
400
an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.
Define epithet.
400
Non-diegetic sound isn't visible on the TV, nor has been implemented to be in the scene before.
What is a non-diegetic sound?
400
Be a warning or education of a future event.
Foreshadowing means...
400
Feeling, expressing, or including sadness.
What does the term mournful mean?
500
To give a summary of an excerpt in your own words.
Define paraphrase.
500
a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable, for example, Two households, both alike in dignity.