Figurative Language
The type of figurative language used in the example “Her eyes sparkled like diamonds.”
What is simile?
The professional paper format for the arts and humanities.
What is Modern Language Association (MLA)?
The correct form of the following sentence: Jackie and she (is/are) happy about getting a good grade.
What is “Jackie and she are happy about getting a good grade.”
The literary term for the sequence of main events in a story.
What is plot?
The process of shortening a passage into just its main ideas.
What is summary?
The type of figurative language use in the example “The dress was a flame sparkling and flashing in the lights.”
What is metaphor?
The “road map” for your paper. A sentence included in the introduction that includes your claim and the reasons you’ll discuss in your paper.
What is a thesis statement?
This type of sentence: During the basketball game, two of the players jumped for the ball at the same time.
What is a simple sentence?
The literary term for the moral of a story or what the reader is supposed to learn from the story.
What is theme?
The process of putting a quote or piece of information from a source into your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
The type of figurative language used in the example, "I bet the butcher the other day that he couldn't reach the meat that was on the top shelf. He refused to take the bet, saying that the steaks were too high."
What is a pun?
The pieces of information typically included in an MLA style in-text citation.
What are author’s last name and page number?
Words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings.
What is a homophone/homonym?
The literary term for the main character of a story, the one the story follows.
What is the protagonist?
The process of fixing mistakes you have made while writing your paper, such as typos, grammar errors, and spelling mistakes.
What is editing?
The type of figurative language used in the example “There is a real love hate relationship developing between the two of them.”
What is oxymoron?
The order of information in an end citation for a book.
What is Last Name, First. Book. City: Publisher, Year Published.
The part of speech of the words for and after in the example “We will meet you for dinner after the movie.”
What is a preposition?
The literary term for a problem a character faces. Can be internal (the character struggling with himself) or external (the character struggling with a force outside himself).
What is conflict?
The process of making substantive changes to a draft, e.g. changing the organization, rewriting sections, or adding information.
What is revision?
The type of figurative language used in the example “We walked through the backdoor and into our neighbor’s Eden.”
What is an allusion?
The order of information in an end citation for a website.
What is Last name, First name. “Title of Web Page.” Title of Website, Publisher, Date published in Day Month Year format, URL.?
The part of a complex sentence that contains the main subject and predicate and can stand alone as its own sentence.
What is an independent clause?
The literary term for the ways an author shows the reader the personality of a character. Can be direct or indirect.
What is characterization?
What are claim, evidence, counterclaim, and solution/proposal?
The elements of a strong argument.