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An independent clause.
What is a clause that can stand by itself, also known as a simple sentence?
100
The definition of Bias
What is a particular tendency or inclination, especially one that prevents unprejudiced consideration of a question.
100
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is alliteration?
100
The definition of satire.
What is 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.
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To irritate or annoy.
What does irk mean?
200
The proper use of a semi-colon.
What is a punctuation mark that links two independent clauses and eliminates the pause between the two sentences that would be caused by a period or the words, "and, but, nor, or yet."
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Didactic.
What are words and language written for the purpose of educating the reader. Particularly in moral or ethical regard. Didactic intent, is the intent to which the writer aims to educate their audience.
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The attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions.
What is Personification
200
Dystopian
What is an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.
200
having or displaying a friendly or pleasant manner.
What is amiable?
300
A subordinate clause.
What is a sentence that cannot stand alone as a sentence because it doesn't provide a complete thought.
300
The definition of Irony.
What is a situation when the state of things is almost comically contrary to what should be expected.
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Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is a Hyperbole?
300
A genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives.
What is creative non-fiction?
300
Noisy, energetic, cheery.
What is boisterous?
400
A list of 10 conjunctions
and as but if or so since than that though when where wherever while...
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Parallell structure.
What is the repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence. By making each compared item or idea in your sentence follow the same grammatical pattern, you create a parallel construction.
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What is the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
What is juxtaposition?
400
In literature, this genre is often considered a revolt against realism and naturalism, seeking to achieve a psychological or spiritual reality rather than record external events in logical sequence.
What is expressionism?
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Walking in a slow, relaxed manner, without a hurry.
What is saunter?
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What is a sentence?
What is an independent clause containing a subject and a predicate.
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The definition of rhetoric.
What is the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.
500
Ideas and meanings attributed to symbols.
What is symbolism?
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A genre that deals with the study of the origin, development, and varieties of human beings and their societies, particularly so-called primitive societies?