Easy Ones
A little harder
Sentence types
Miscellaneous
Examples
100
The means of conveying an attitude or mood.
What is tone?
100
In diction, the implied or suggested meaning of a word.
What is Connotation?
100
A sentence with one independent clause and no dependent clauses.
What is a simple sentence?
100
When a person writes or says one thing and means the opposite.
What is verbal irony.
100
A wise fool.
What is a paradox?
200
A passing reference to a family person, place, or thing drawn from history, the Bible, mythology, literature, or pop culture.
What is an allusion?
200
The actual meaning of a word.
What is denotation?
200
A sentence with multiple independent clauses but no dependent clauses.
What is a compound sentence?
200
When words and actions of the characters of a work of literature have a different meaning for the reader than they do for the characters.
What is dramatic irony?
200
You are such a Romeo.
What is an allusion?
300
Attributing human characteristics to something not human.
What is personification?
300
A seeming contradiction that in fact reveals some truth.
What is a paradox?
300
A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
300
Regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses.
What is anaphora?
300
It's 5 degrees today. It's a bit cold.
What is verbal irony?
400
A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared.
What is a metaphor?
400
A sentence with multiple independent clauses and at least one dependent clause.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
400
A figure of speech in which one or several conjunctions are omitted from a series of related clauses.
What is asyndeton?
400
Every day, every night, in every way, I am getting better.
What is anaphora?
500
A technique that relies upon the use of the same syntactical structures in a series in order to emphasize an idea.
What is parallelism?
500
When actions have an effect that is the opposite of what is intended so the outcome is opposite to what was expected.
What is situational irony?
500
A sentence that makes sense if brought to a close before the actual ending.
What is a cumulative (or loose) sentence?
500
The use of several conjunctions in close succession.
What is polysyndeton?
500
I went to the store, and the restaurant, and the gas station, and the post office, before I went home.
What is polysyndeton?
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