The broadest category of literature. Writing that reflects real life. It's true.
What is nonfiction?
100
The sequence of events in a story.
What is plot?
100
These words help the reader to determine the meaning of a word without a dictionary.
What are context clues?
100
Language not meant to be taken literally. It may include similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole.
What is figurative language?
200
I stand by the gate...School’s out...Smoke fills the location...Tears come to my eyes...
One can infer this about the author's style.
What is simple or unadorned?
200
to inform...to persuade...to entertain...to praise
What is author's purpose?
200
In a fictional work, this is the most intense part of the plot.
What is climax?
200
The coach's pre-game tirade did not help to encourage the team.
The context clues suggest this is the meaning of tirade.
What is a long, angry speech?
200
The voice in a poem.
What is speaker?
300
The warm sand of the South that asks for white camellias.
In "The Guitar" the author uses this literary device.
What is personification?
300
A short piece on nonfiction devoted to one topic.
What is an essay?
300
Things Fall Apart...
Okonkwo was very lucky in his daughters. He never stopped regretting that Ezinma was a girl....
"I wish she were a boy," Okonkwo thought within himself. She understood things so perfectly.
This piece is told from _______ point of view.
What is third-person omniscient?
300
from Night...
The race seemed interminable. I thought I had been running for years.
The context clues suggest this is the meaning of interminable.
What is endless?
300
The reason or reasons behind a character's actions.
What is motivation?
400
I cannot explain the sadness/That’s fallen on my breast/An old, old fable haunts me/And will not let me rest.
In "The Lorelei" the author uses this rhyme scheme.
What is ABCB?
400
Information from the beginning, middle, and end of the text. Information related to who, what, when, where, why, and how. No opinion.
What is objective summary?
400
Lipstick in Afghanistan...
"It was a cold, gray morning in early March when Maureen drove her to the airport and said a tearful good-bye."
The imagery in this passage creates a _____ mood.
What is melancholy, sad, depressed.
400
Although we can live a long time without food, water is indispensable.
The context clues suggest this is the meaning of indispensable.
What is absolutely necessary?
400
The most important point made in a nonfiction passage.
What is the central idea?
500
I live, I die, I burn myself and drown.
I am extremely hot in suffering cold:
my life is soft and hardness uncontrolled.
When I am happy, then I ache and frown.
In Sonnet 8, the author uses oxymorons to emphasize the speaker's...
What is emotions?
500
How the author unfolds his or her ideas. How the text is organized.
What is structure?
500
In a piece of fiction, this is an effect of dramatic irony.
What is suspense?
500
When I returned from camping, I looked a little slovenly.
The context clues suggest the meaning of slovenly is...
What is untidy in dress or appearance; messy?
500
from Night...
"Get up? How could I? How could I get myself out of this fluffy bed? I could hear what my father said, but it seemed empty of meaning, as though he had told me to lift up the whole building in my arms..."
This simile reflects the author's attitude. He feels his situation is ...