Grammar
Fiction and Drama
Persuasion
Figurative Language
Miscellaneous
100
A clause that can stand by itself. Example: He ran.
What is an independent clause?
100
The events that make up a story.
What is plot?
100
An appeal to logic or a way of persuading an audience by reason.
What is logos?
100
Example: I could eat a horse.
What is an Exaggeration?
100
Make (an idea, situation, or problem) clear to someone by describing it in more detail or revealing relevant facts or ideas.
What is an explanation?
200
A sentence with more than one subject or predicate.
What is a compound sentence?
200
The most intense, exciting, or important part of the story.
What is climax?
200
An appeal to emotion, and a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response.
What is pathos?
200
An exaggerated statement or claim not ment to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
200
Likely or Probable.
What is Feasible?
300
A clause that either modifies the independent clause of a sentence or serves as a component of it.
What is a dependent clause?
300
A struggle between a character and an outside force.
What is external conflict?
300
An appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader.
What is Ethos?
300
Example: "I had fallen through a trap door of depression."
What is a metaphor?
300
A thing that is needed or wanted.
What is a requirment?
400
A sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses.
What is a complex sentence?
400
Psychological struggle within the mind of a literary or dramatic character.
What is internal conflict?
400
A particular activity or cause that has suddenly become fashionable or popular.
What is a bandwagon?
400
An implied or indirect reference to a person, event, passage, or thing.
What is an allusion?
400
The action of solving a problem or dispute.
What is resolution?
500
A sentence having two or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
500
A point of view where the story is narrated by one character at a time.
What is first person point of view?
500
A failure in reasoning that renders an argument invalid.
What is a fallacy?
500
A comparison between to unlike subjects throughout a long poem or story.
What is an extended metaphor?
500
A short extract from a passage.
What is an excerpt?
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