Grammar and Conventions
Literary Movements
Figurative Language
Writing
Fiction
100
Sentence missing either a subject or a verb.
What is a fragment?
100
Consisted mostly of sermons and religious essays, characterized by plain style writing.
What is Colonial or Puritan literature?
100
The direct comparison between two unlike things.
What is metaphor?
100
The reason for writing.
What is purpose?
100
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
200
The words and ideas in a text that help determine the meaning of a word that they surround.
What are context clues?
200
Stresses the negative and uncontrollable impact that the environment can have on human lives.
What is Naturalism?
200
Aany object, person, place, or object that has its own meaning and alos represents something else.
What is symbolism?
200
The controlling idea or main idea in an essay.
What is a thesis statement?
200
The events in a story.
What is plot?
300
A part of a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete thought.
What is an independent clause?
300
Valued imagination, nature, and the supernatural over reason.
What is Romanticism?
300
The use of words or phrases to appeal to the 5 senses.
What is imagery?
300
Writing meant to convince a reader to agree with the author's persepctive.
What is persuasive writing?
300
The central message or lesson of a story.
What is theme?
400
Word choice.
What is diction?
400
Non-fiction texts that included political and protest writings that focused on justice and freedom.
What is the Age of Reason, Enlightenment, or Revolutionary?
400
The situation in which one thing is expected to happen but the unexpected actually happens.
What is irony?
400
Words used to connect ideas and move writing from one idea to another smoothly.
What are transition words?
400
A feeling brought out of the reader through the word choice in a story.
What is tone?
500
Sentence structure that gives two or more parts of the sentence(s) a similar form in order to give create a definite pattern.
What is parallelism?
500
Focused on self-reliance and nature as a way to achieve a higher state of existence.
What is Transcendentalism?
500
Contradictory (opposite) ideas put together to demonstrate a deeper truth.
What is paradox?
500
Writing that focuses on breaking down a specific idea and interpreting the meaning behind that idea.
What is critical writing or analysis?
500
The situation in which the audience or readers know something important that the characters do not know about their own situations.
What is dramatic irony?
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