A heading or title of an articleThe headline on today's newspaper reads "John Doe Wins Wood- Splitting Competition."
What is headline?
100
A joke or type of wordplay in which similar senses or sounds of two words or phrases, or different senses of the same word, are deliberately confused.
What is pun?
100
A technique in which the nature of the words used become part of the subject of the work, such as puns, phonetic mix-ups such as oddly formed sentences, and telling character names.
What is word play?
100
A voucher entitling the holder to a discount off a particular product, or a detachable portion of a bond that is given up in return for a payment of interest.
What is coupon?
100
The state of someone’s mind at the time of committing an act or offence.
What is intent?
200
The degree of this difference.
What is contrast?
200
The writer gives information, explains, defines, or describes something. Expository texts include essays, speeches, journals, newspaper and magazine articles, and directions, among other things.
What is expository writing?
200
To make a first draft of ideas and format for an essay, thesis, article, or book as a plan for the actual writing.
What is prewrite?
200
A question to which the asker does not expect an answer often asked for dramatic or persuasive effect.
What is rhetorical question?
200
a word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another
What is transition?
300
A noun that can be preceded by an indefinite article, and denotes any member, or all members of a class; an ordinary noun such as "dog" or "city".
What is common noun?
300
A clause that can stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence; contains at least a subject and a verb.
What is main clause?
300
a subordinate clause which functions as a subject or object of the main clause
What is noun clause?
300
A form of a verb that may function as an adjective or noun. The present participle and the past participle.
What is participle?
300
Any document that draws on one or more primary sources and interprets or analyses them; also sources such as newspapers whose accuracy is open to question.
What is secondary source?
400
A short narrative illustrating a lesson (usually religious/moral) by comparison or analogy
What is parable?
400
The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge.
What is instruction?
400
to draw conclusions from examining; to assess
What is evaluate?
400
A bibliography in which each item has an annotation - a brief summary of how each source is useful to an author in constructing a paper or argument.
What is annotated bibliography?
400
A phrase that functions syntactically as a verb, consisting of a main verb and any auxiliaries.
What is verb phrase?
500
the first version of a piece of writing that will be improved in later versions.
What is rough draft?
500
A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
What is fragment?
500
The noun that the verb is directly acting upon. In languages where case is determined by word order, a word in the accusative case would also be in close physical proximity to the verb.
What is direct object?
500
Two independent clauses strung together with a comma in between.