LITERARY TERMS
The central idea or argument the author is trying to express on a topic.
What is theme?
Choose the best sentence option
A. After I had studied for two hours without stopping.
B. Studying hard for two hours without stopping.
C. I studied hard for two hours without stopping. .
What is C
The author uses the five senses to create word pictures for the reader.
What is imagery?
The subject of a text not to be mistaken with the lesson or unifying idea.
Select the INCORRECT sentence.
A. After I had studied hard for two hours without stopping.
B. I studied hard for two hours without stopping.
C. Studying hard for two hours without stopping is exhausting.
What is A?
the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
What is Satire?
The art of argument. Includes appeals and other strategies.
What is rhetoric?
Select the sentence with a fragment
A. Pretending he knew what she was talking about, he listened quietly.
B. As he listened quietly, he pretended he knew what she was talking about.
C. Pretending he knew what she was talking about and listening quietly.
What is C?
The use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are related. An examples is seen in the Declaration of Independence with the use of “we have,” then a past tense verb, such as “We have Petitioned,” and “ we have conjured.”
What is parallelism?
The reason or intent that a piece of writing is created by an individual.
What is the author's purpose?
A style of writing that includes implementing outside sources and in compilation with an argument to build a cohesive paper.
What is Synthesis?
Identify if this is a sentence or fragment.
Going to games which we always lost.
What is a fragment?
In Macbeth the line "fair is foul and foul is fair" is an example of?
What is a paradox?
A literary movement that centers around the idea that humans have knowledge from nature that goes beyond what can be understood with the senses. (Hint: Dead Poet's Society)
What is Transcendentalism?
In the conclusion of an argumentative or synthesis essay an essential line that provides the audience with the "next steps" to take.
What is a call to action.
Original sources of information; anything from firsthand documents, such as poems, diaries, court records, documents, and interviews to research results generated by experiments, surveys, etc.
What are Primary sources?