Vocabulary
This adjective's synonyms are (adj) obscure, unknown, uncommon.
Choices: cavil, angst, esoteric, dotage, dichotomy, utopian
What is esoteric?
This adjective's synonyms are assiduous, diligent, and painstaking.
Choices are pyrrhic victory, sedulous, quotidian, veracity, polemical, drivel, germane
What is sedulous?
This type of essay examines the reasons an event occurs and the consequences of the event.
What is a cause and effect essay?
Writing that goes beyond a writing's literal words to its deeper meaning.
What is a literary analysis?
A story's message.
What is the theme?
This noun's synonyms are distress, anguish and sorrow.
Choices: cavil, angst, dotage, drivel, accolades, anomalous, iconoclastic
What is angst?
This noun's synonyms are accuracy, truthfulness, and reliability.
Choices are caprice, adulation, quotidian, veracity, polemical, dereliction, furor
What is veracity?
The reader immediately identified the grammatical issue with the sentence.
"She knew she could make money by selling her discarded brother's toys."
What is a misplaced modifier?
Saki enjoys using this literary device in his stories, for example, he writes:
“...a deed of Nature's own violence overwhelmed them both...” and
“...a twig had slashed the skin of his face...”
What is personification?
The first part of a story where the setting, characters, and inciting event are introduced.
What is the exposition?
This verb's synonyms are distress, anguish and sorrow.
Choices: cavil, angst, esoteric, dotage, accolades, iconoclastic, vacuous, felling
What is cavil?
This adjective's synonyms are ordinary, commonplace, and routine.
Choices are pyrrhic victory, sedulous, quotidian, polemical, drivel, germane
What is quotidian?
The ideal font size for slide presentations that demonstrates a normal speaking tone and good visibility.
What is a font of 32?
The writer gives a hint of what is to come to build suspense with this literary device. For instance, Saki writes, “there was movement and unrest among the creatures.”
What is foreshadowing?
The story is told through a narrator who has some access to the character's thoughts.
What is an omniscient limited point of view?
Despite all the ________ she received in her role as vice-president, they would not promote her.
Choices: effloresce, angst, esoteric, dotage, accolades, iconoclastic, antithesis
What is accolades?
(noun) tributes, praises, honours
She wanted to start the conference with a __________ topic that would get the audience’s attention.
Choices are: sombre, polemical, ubiquitous, dotage, secular
What is polemical?
(adj) controversial, argumentative, contentious
When using quotes to support an argument, a writer must,
1) Introduce the quote
2) Write the quote
3) Cite the quote.
The fourth step is _____________.
What is to analyze or explain the quote.
In "The Interlopers," the men are willing to kill each other over worthless land. Even more _______ is that they end up being killed by the land.
What is ironic?
How the writer feels during the story.
What is the mood?
He was an __________ leader, one determined to see the USA adopt extreme socialist programs and succumb to military rule.
Choices: ingenious, iconoclastic, eclectic, mephitic, noisome
What is iconoclastic?
(adj) dissident, radical, revolutionary
If you become president, it will be a ___________, for the king maintains the power for law-making.
Choices are: complicit victory, vacuous victory, disconcerting victory, pyrrhic victory, eclectic victory
What is pyrrhic victory?
(noun) narrow win, no-win situation, win at a great cost
This thesis is an excellent example of a/an _____ essay:
Canada ranks third in the world for education performance when compared to 15 other developed countries (Conference Board 2014). When governments plan how much to spend on academic programs, they examine the outcomes of educated vs non-educated populations in tax contributions, social assistance, innovation, and civic duty.
What is an effect essay?
In the short story "The Interlopers," it symbolized the power and indifference of nature towards humans.
What is the wolves?
This 19th-century movement showed nature to be indifferent to human desire or action. It showed nature as random, indifferent, and independent.
What is Literary Naturalism?