Random Things
This is the beginning of a story, in which the reader learns about the characters and setting.
What is exposition?
What is the term used to define that attention getting beginning of an essay?
What is a hook?
The literary device used when the audience is aware of events that the characters are not.
what is dramatic irony?
What is the term given to the element when the initial sounds of a word, beginning either with a consonant or a vowel, are repeated in close succession?
What is alliteration?
What is the character who opposes the hero or creates the conflict?
What is an antagonist?
What is the form of spelling for the possessive pronoun to show it belongs to THEM?
What is their?
What is the name given to this universal idea statement that addresses the main idea you want to emphasize in your paper?
What is a thesis statement?
This tells us what the text is mainly about. We might be able to read this directly from a sentence in the text.
What is Central Idea/ Main Idea?
What is the name of the literary device that is an object in itself, but also represents something deeper?
What is a symbol?
What is an account of a person's life written by that person?
What is autobiography?
The end of a story, in which the reader understands how the conflict is resolved, and the different parts of the story fit together.
What is the resolution?
What is the first step in the writing process?
What is brainstorming or prewriting?
What does this quote from Hanging Fire, by Audre Lorde really mean?
"I am fourteen
and my skin has betrayed me."
what is the struggles of acne?
Which of the following words has negative connotation?
son
child
spawn
dependent
What is spawn?
What is a moment of great intensity in the plot of a literary work, generally bringing events to a head and leading to the conclusion?
What is climax?
These help the reader understand the meaning of unfamiliar words.
What are context clues?
What is the part of the writing process where a student will make additions or deletions of content ideas to make the paper flow better and have better voice?
What is revision or editing?
"When the shepherd's whistle releases her, she's off like an arrow running east." What literary device is used in this sentence?
What is simile?
What is the literary device when the idea created means something else, something that might be initially hidden, and not to be taken literally?
What is connotation?
What is a conversational passage in a narrative or play used to advance the plot or develop the characters?
What is dialogue?
These details help a reader determine whether an author has adequately supported their claim.
What is text evidence?
What is the part of writing traits where one's personal style or flavor is expressed?
What is voice?
His words were a dagger stabbing at my heart. What literary device is used here?
What is metaphor? or, What is personification?
What is a reference, within a literary work, to another work of fiction, a film, a piece of art, or even a real event?
What is an allusion?
What is the perspective from which a story is told; may be first person, third person, or less commonly, second person?
What is point-of-view?