Literature
Grammar
Vocabulary
Composition
LIT TERMS
100

This world event was scattering the children that Miss Dove had taught in the past.

What is WWII? 

100

A person, place, thing, or idea

What is a noun? 

100

A place of refuge 

What is Asylum? 

100

The main idea of a paragraph. 

What is the topic sentence? 

100
The attitude or emotion of the author or narrator towards his subject or audience. 

What is tone or mood? 

200

Thomas Gradgrind says that Sissy Jupe should go by this name because "Sissy is not a name."

What is Cecilia?

200

a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc.

What is an adverb? 

200

Cosmos 

What is the universe as an ordered and harmonious system? 

200

The sentence that concludes a paragraph, connecting the paragraph back to the thesis/rest of the paper. 

What is a clincher? 
200

Two ways to describe characters that change or remain the same. 

What is static and dynamic? 

300

The Central Theme of the "The Garden Party"

What is wealth inequality, the haves and haves-not, and/or the prejudice of the social classes.

300

The 4 types of sentences (in terms of structure). 

What is simple, complex, compound, and compound/complex? 

300

unimportant;trivial;foolish 

What is frivolous? 

300

The use of incidents, reasons, comparison and contrasts to support the main idea of a paragraph. 

What is paragraph development? 

300

A short narrative song written in stanzas. 

What is a Ballad? 

400

The narrator (of "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix") gave this to his horse after arriving in Aix. 

What is wine? 

400
Terms we use for a noun or verb when they serve as the chief elements of a sentence. 

What is subject and verb? 

400

The danger of loss, injury, or death. 

What is Jeopardy? 

400

The element of a paragraph that mean the details are in such good order and the relationships  between the details are so clear that the resulting paragraph is easy to understand. 

What is paragraph coherence? 

400

A narrator that is an all-knowing, 3rd person perspective who comments freely on the actions and characters as he is able to delve into the minds of all characters and tell what they think and feel. 

What is the omniscient point of view? 

500

This article of clothing is described at the Highwayman's death 

What is a bunch of lace at his throat (Collar)? 

500

A grammatical voice construction where the subject is a recipient of a verb's action. 

What is Passive Voice? 

500

a word with synonyms such as cant, dialect, lingo. 

What is vernacular? 

500

A linguistic concept used to describe how writers achieve cohesion between sentences by first presenting what readers already know (information previously presented) before introducing new information.

The known new contract. 

500

Telling the reader directly what the character is like. 

What is direct exposition? 

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