Structure
Ordinary written or spoken expression
What is prose?
A group of words that can stand alone in a sentence
What is an independent clause?
An established, easily recognizable character type
What is a stock character?
The 3 rhetorical appeals are: ethos, pathos and _____________
What is logos?
Seize the day
What is carpe diem?
A Japanese verse form consisting of 3 unrhymed lines; 5-7-5 syllables
What is a Haiku?
Contains a subject and a verb but does not express a complete thought
What is a dependent clause?
A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing
What is a stereotype?
A question that is asked without expecting an answer
What is a rhetorical question?
Conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning
What is an inference?
An underlying and often distinct theme in a piece of writing or conversation
What is a subtext?
A word used to connect clauses or phrases
What is a conjunction?
Wrote Of Mice and Men
Who is John Steinbeck?
Emphatic exaggeration, usually for comic or ironic effect
What is a hyperbole?
Information that is expressed more than once
What is redundancy?
Uses words or phrases in a similar structure
What is parallelism?
Ex. She is an inventor and her husband is a patent attorney.
What type of clause?
What is an independent clause?
Who is Ray Bradbury?
A play on words
What is a pun?
Implied though not plainly expressed
What is implicit?
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a successive clause
What is anaphora?
Another word of dependent clause
What is subordinate?
Wrote The Great Gatsby
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
A contradiction between appearance or expectation and reality
What is irony?
Stated clearly and in detail
What is explicit?