This is a sentence error that occurs when two sentences are incorrectly joined together with no separation such as a comma and a conjunction or a semicolon.
What is a run-on sentence.
100
This means to make an educated quess using textual evidence and logic.
What is an inference?
100
This is what you put in your papers when you want to give credit to a source.
What is a citation?
100
The overall message or central idea of a piece of literature.
What is theme?
100
"Tiger! Tiger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"
This is the type of rhyme present in the words "bright and night"
What is end and perfect rhyme?
200
This is the name for sentence structure that is balanced and "equal" on each side.
What is parallel structure.
200
This type of reasoning begins wih a general premise, such as "All girls like to shop," and leads to a specific conclusion.
"All girls like to shop, and Sandra is a girl, therefore, Sandra likes to shop."
What is deductive reasoning?
200
This is a type of source that is closest to what you are researching. For example, an autobiography or an interview.
What is a primary source?
200
The point of view in which the narrator knows everything, including characters' inner thoughts and feelings.
What is third person omniscient?
200
A poem that tells a story (narrative) and is meant to be sung.
What is a ballad?
300
Fill in the blank to this sentence:
Everyone at the party remembered to bring __________ side dish for the potluck dinner.
What is "his or her"
300
This type of reasoning begins with specific clues like a detective case and use those clues to make a more general conclusion.
What is inductive reasoning?
300
This type of website is usually trustworthy because it is connected to a college or university. I am looking for the actual end of the hyperlink. (such as .com)
What is .edu?
300
This occurs when the audience knows something that a character or characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
300
A poem that has 14 lines and is written in iambic pentameter. Can be Shakespearean/English or Petrachan/Italian.
What is a sonnet?
400
This is the word (usually a noun) that a pronoun refers to.
What is an antecedent.
400
This is evidence in a paper that supports a claim by providing hints but not clearly stating it.
What is implied evidence?
400
These is one way to know that a source is reliable. There are a few, so you just need to get one of them correct.
What is (1) an expert or well known author; (2) A recent copyright date; (3) affiliation with a respectable source such as the government or a college.
400
"It rained so much I thought I needed an ark!" is an example of what type of reference?
What is a biblical allusion?
400
The narrator in a poem is called this.
What is the speaker.
500
This is the purpose of a piece of writing. For example, it can be narrative, persuasive, process-analysis, literary analysis, etc.
What is mode.
500
This causes problems in deductive reasoning. It is when your first statement is based on something untrue, like a stereotype. An example would be "all dogs are cute."
What is a false premise.
500
This is a type of resource that is no closely connected to what you are researching, such as an encylopeadia article.
What is a secondary resource?
500
This type of speech occurs when a character is alone on stage and shares his or her thoughts out loud.
What is a soliloquy?
500
This is a type of meter that contains ten syllables per line in a unstressed-stressed pattern.