Something that is true about a subject and can be tested or proven.
What is a fact?
100
A stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes.
What is a quatrain?
100
A conversation between two or more people.
What is dialogue?
100
The action or process of narrating a story.
What is narration?
100
Jason is an Eagle Scout. He is also an honor student.
This sentence could best be combined by saying...
What is Jason, an Eagle scout, is also an honor student.
Or
Jason, who is an Eagle Scout, is also an honor student.
200
A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning. It's when you read between the lines and draw your own conclusions.
What is making an inference?
200
In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence,reticence ).
What is assonance?
200
A particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group.
What is dialect?
200
The first stage of a plot in a typical story. This provides important background information and introduces the setting and the important characters.
What is the exposition?
200
John is an excellent cook. I like to eat at his house.
This sentence could best be combined by saying...
What is John is an excellent cook, so I like to eat at his house.
OR
I like to eat at John's house, for he is an excellent cook.
300
What someone thinks about that subject.
What is an opinion?
300
Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
What is a couplet?
300
Are hints that an author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word. The clue may appear within the same sentence as the word to which it refers, or it may follow in a preceding sentence.
What are context clues?
300
This is the highest point of interest and the turning point of the story. The reader wonders what will happen next; will the conflict be resolved or not?
What is climax?
300
Identifies or renames another noun--is a handy way of adding details to a sentence. It's added information and if taken out of the sentence the sentence should still function as a complete thought. They are usually set off by commas or dashes.
What is an appositive?
400
a problem in the story
What is conflict?
400
A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next.
What is internal rhyme?
400
A thing that represents or stands for something else. Ex. The American flag represents freedom, peace, and justice.
What is a symbol?
400
The moral of a story or lesson learned.
What is theme?
400
When conducting Internet research on the great Odysseus, King of Ithaca, what word(s) would most effectively narrow your search.
What is Odysseus of Ithaca?
500
When the audience knows more than the character knows.
What is dramatic irony?
500
A line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable, for example Two households, both alike in dignity.
What is iambic pentameter?
500
A broad satire or comedy, though now it's used to describe something that is supposed to be serious but has turned ridiculous. For example, if a defendant is not treated fairly, his lawyer might say that the trial is a farce. As a type of comedy, which uses improbable situations, physical humor and silliness to entertain.
What is a farce?
500
Part of the plot that concludes the falling action by revealing or suggesting the outcome of the conflict.
What is the resolution?
500
When conducting a library search on catepillars the proper library catalog search that would be most effective would be...
-title search
-author search
-subject search
-no search