Grammar and Language
Fiction
Fiction
Nonfiction
Drama
Figurative Language
Writing and Random
100
The following sentence is an example of: Dude! You got to hear this song!
What is informal language?
100
the beginning of a story when characters and conflicts are introduced
What is exposition?
100
a story about a person's life
What is a biography?
100
Sound device where a word imitates the sounds associated with it. Ex. buzz, crack, bang
What is onomatopoeia?
100
the rhyme pattern in a poem
What is rhyme scheme?
200
Use this punctuation mark to take the place of a comma and a conjunction when joining clauses.
What is a semicolon?
200
the five types of conflict
What are man vs. self, man vs. nature, man vs. society, man vs. machine?
200
a story that retells a certain event or time period in a person's life
What is a memoir?
200
Repetition of one initial sound in more than one word
What is alliteration?
200
when the author gives hints of what is to come in the futurw
What is foreshadowing?
300
the dictionary meaning of a word is its
What is denotation?
300
the feeling or emotion created by the words and setting in a literary work
What is mood?
300
denouement is another name for
What is falling action?
300
Figure of speech giving human characteristics to an animal, thing, idea, or other inanimate object
What is personification?
300
when the storyline shifts to the past to give readers important information to help them understand the story better
What is flashback?
400
The feelings and thoughts associated with a word is its
What is connotation?
400
form of speech intended to convey the opposite of the actual meaning of he words
What is irony?
400
incidents that hinder the protagonist (add to the conflict)
What are complications?
400
An extravagant or excessive exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
400
steps in the writing process
What are pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, publishing?
500
the person or thing that receives the action from the verb
What is the direct object?
500
a narrator that may see and know everything, even the thoughts of all the characters (point of view)
What is third person omniscient?
500
language appealing to the senses, allowing the reader to experience what the author is describing
What is imagery?
500
1. an implied comparison between two unrelated things 2. a direct comparison between two unlike things, often connected by like, as, or than
1. What is a metaphor? What is a simile?
500
the organizational structures of writing
What are chronological order, cause and effect, compare and contrast?
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