Fiction
This figurative technique is when an author uses images to help the reader imagine what is happening.
What is imagery?
This word refers to the author's main argument.
What is a claim/thesis?
This is where a theme can usually be inferred in a poem (beginning, middle, or end)
What is the end?
Listlessly.
What is acting in an unenthusiastic manner?
This refers to the author's word choice.
What is diction?
This figurative technique is when an author uses symbols to represent a deeper meaning.
What is symbolism?
These two paragraphs in a nonfiction text name the argument.
What are the introduction and conclusion paragraphs?
This figurative language is an extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
Amelioration.
What is improvement?
This refers to words that have the same definition.
What is denotation?
This narrative technique is used when an author shows how someone like Grete changes from a kind to a cold sister throughout the story.
What is character development?
This paragraph argues the opposite side of the author's argument to demonstrate a fair and balanced understanding of the topic.
What is a counterclaim/counterargument/antithesis?
This style of verse does not follow any set pattern of rhymes or meter.
What is free verse?
Travail.
What is painful and laborious effort?
Which word has the most negative connotation?
Scent, fragrance, smell, odor
What is odor?
This genre of writing contains a story with a hidden meaning, often connected to real life.
What is an allegory?
This quality of writing refers to evidence that is objective and verifiably true.
What is credibility?
This type of line in a poem does not end with a grammatical break but continues the thought in the next line.
What is an enjambed line?
Entitled.
What is to feel deserving of special privilege?
These words, like has, may, and will, precede a main verb to provide information about the verb's tense.
What is an auxiliary (helping) verb?
This subgenre of Modernist literature includes elements of ambiguity, fantastic or dreamlike events, and themes of alienation.
What is Absurdism?
This type of writing summarizes a text and evaluates whether the writing is strong.
What is a critical summary?
This style of poem is usually very structured, containing 14 lines, a rhyme scheme, and an internal meter of iambic pentameter.
What is a (Shakespearean) sonnet?
Pariah.
What is an outcast?
Identify the verb phrase in the sentence below:
He had moved to the chest of drawers without effort.
What is "had moved"?