When a period or semicolon is needed, but a comma is placed there instead.
What is a comma splice?
100
An author's specific word choice.
What is diction?
100
Esty's crush.
Who is Dovid Frankel?
100
The creator of OBEY.
Who is Shepard Fairey?
100
A genre of literature and film that focuses on the growth of a protagonist from youth to adulthood.
What is coming-of-age?
200
A phrase, clause, or sentence that leads into a quotation.
What is a signal phrase?
200
A comparison that suggests one thing is another.
What is a metaphor?
200
The two colors that Christopher hates in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
What are yellow and brown?
200
The country where Kevin Carter took his famous Vulture photograph.
What is Sudan?
200
An author's expression of how they feel about a certain aspect or nature of society.
What is social commentary?
300
The only reason you might need to use an apostrophe in your essay.
What is a possessive noun?
300
Sensory details and descriptive language that create a vivid experience for the reader.
What is imagery?
300
It is said to be the ambiguous zero, the excrement of the moon, the pill of immortality, and the gift that robs you.
What is the egg in Shelley Jackson's story, "Egg?"
300
Activist Antonio Amendola's amateur photography project.
What is Shoot 4 Change?
300
A logical fallacy in which a writer bases broad conclusions regarding the statistics of a survey from a small sample group that fails to sufficiently represent an entire population.
What is a Hasty (or Sweeping) Generalization?
400
When the subject does not perform the action in the sentence.
What is a passive sentence?
400
A recurring subject, theme, idea, or symbol in a literary work.
What is a motif?
400
Norma Watson's tell-all article about Carrie's rampage at Ewen High School.
What is "We Survived The Black Prom?"
400
After Tom Junod's article was published in 2003, the man most commonly believed to be the Falling Man.
Who is Jonathan Briley?
400
Everyday objects designated as art, most notably by Marcel Duchamp.
What are Readymades?
500
The past participle of the verb "lie" when referring to a person reclining.
What is lain?
500
Fictional writing that self-consciously draws attention to the fact that it is writing.
What is metafiction?
500
Esperanza's little sister.
Who is Magdalena (or Nenny)?
500
The graffiti prize in London that Banksy set up.
What is the Burner Prize?
500
A gluten-free vegetarian who loves Nirvana, Banksy, and the poet Anne Sexton.