Although this is usually meant to be funny, the purpose of it is not primarily humour in itself so much as an attack on something of which the author strongly disapproves, using the weapon of wit.
What is satire?
100
When writing dialogue, each speaker gets a new one of these.
What is a paragraph?
100
In real life some problems are never solved and some contests never permanently won. A story, therefore, may have an ______________ ending, one in no definitive conclusion is arrived at.
What is an indeterminate ending?
100
This is a feeling that you get while your reading a book or a feeling that a work of literature evokes.
What is mood?
100
An _____________ is a unit of eight lines of poetry. Also, the first eight lines of an italian sonnet.
What is an octave?
200
A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule. (Think of a bird that imitates)
What is a parody?
200
A semi colon should only be used to join these.
What are independent clauses. In other words, sentences that could stand on their own. eg. I hated her; she always taunted me.
200
A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.
What is an extended metaphor?
200
This is the attitude a writer has towards the subject they're writing about.
What is tone?
200
An ___________ is an expression that has a meaning apart from the meanings of its individual words.
For example: It’s raining cats and dogs. Its literal meaning suggests that cats and dogs are falling from the sky. We interpret it to mean that it is raining hard.
What is an idiom? eg. I say, "Break a Leg" before you enter the exam.
300
A light dramatic work in which highly improbable plot situations, exaggerated characters, and often slapstick elements are used for.
What is a farce?
300
Commas and periods always come ____________ quotation marks.
What is before? Eg. I repeated, "Don't cram for the exam."
300
When a poet or author give inanimate objects a living description.
What is personification?
300
A synonym for the word plausible is this.
What is believable? (a good word to use when evaluating characters)
300
The specialized language of a professional, occupational, or other group, often meaningless to outsiders.
What is jargon?
400
Animal farm is an example of this.
What is a satire?
400
"The boy loved to swim, running, and to cycle," is an example of this.
What is faulty parallelism. It should read, "The boy loved to swim, to run, and to cycle."
400
For comparative person, when an author says something "is" something it "isn't." eg. Mr. E is a giraffe.
or
When the author says something "does" something it doesn't, he is using this figure of speech. Eg. Mr. E flew down the hallway.
What is metaphor?
400
Writing that seeks to imitate informal spoken language as distinct from formal or literary language.
What is colloquial language?
400
This is a term used to described a tendency or preference towards a particular perspective, ideology or result, especially when the tendency interferes with the ability to be impartial, unprejudiced, or objective.
What is bias?
500
Weird Al has made a career out of this.
What is parody?
500
One of these two is correct: "alot of time" or "a lot time."
What is "a lot of time."
500
These are imaginative, non-literal ways of using language that will make writers' prose and poetry stronger and more effective when used properly. (Metaphor, simile and personification are examples of these."
What are figures of speech?
500
This is the feeling or association that a word or phrase evokes in addition to its "denotative" or literal meaning.
What is connotation?
500
This is language which is no longer commonly used because it is has fallen out of poplur use. These are most often old words.