"Saint, the sneaky Schnauzer sank her teeth into Leonard's leg."
What is "alliteration"?
100
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What are "parentheses"?
100
a comparison of two things, using like or as
What is a "simile"?
200
to give information
What is a "report"?
200
level or degree of language
What is "formality", "modality" or "register"?
200
"The life and times of Joseph James McGrath" as written by Karla Jo McGrath
What is "biography"?
200
a term used in psychology to describe the outer face we put on for the world; also used in poetry when a poet writes as someone other than their real self.
What is "persona"?
200
a word that has a very similar meaning to another word
What is "synonym"?
300
says why something is the way it is
What is "explanation"?
300
texts based on fact
What is "non-fiction"?
300
"She found the sound to be deafening."
What is "assonance" or "rhyme"
300
a compressed or concentrated way of expressing thoughts and feelings; also often studied in literature courses
What is "poetry"?
300
words and phrases which are fashionable within small groups of people; they tend to be informal
What is "slang"?
400
to retell past events in the order in which they occurred (the question is not 'chronological')
What is "recount"?
400
The all-knowing, all-seeing, teller of the story
What is the "omniscient narrator"?
400
"Think outside the box."
What is a "cliche"?
400
a syllable attached to the front of a word
What is "prefix"?
400
language which has its own rules and peculiarities such as pauses, ums and ahs (The question is not 'What is stuttering?'
What is "spoken language"?
500
to show how something can be done
What is "procedure" or "instruction"?
500
one person talking
What is "monologue"?
500
Indonesian people walk slowly.
What is a "generalization" or "stereotype"?
500
the reason a text is composed
What is "purpose"?
500
the art of reading something superficially, to pick out the main ideas