Also known as a "Dependent Clause", this clause begins with a word like if, as, when, until.
What is subordinate clause?
100
Of the three rhetorical appeals, this one deals with author's credibility.
What is ethos
100
In this Robert Burn's famous love poem, it begins with "my love is like a _____ ______ ________."
What is "Red Red Rose"
100
This "real cool" author was raised in Chicago and was the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize
Who is Gwendolyn Brooks
100
Shakespeare's poem were often in this poet form
What is sonnet
200
Which punctuation mark is missing in the following sentence:
Many great people have come from Cincinnati Jerry Springer, Nick Lachey, and Jon Bennett.
What is a colon?
200
This term on the plot diagram is also referred to as "denouement"
What is falling action
200
She wrote about the adventures of Harry, Ron and Hermoine as they fought evil, puberty, and racism
Who is J.K. Rowling
200
This 'Renaissance' writer was "too an American" and loved to write for English B
Who is Langston Hughes
200
This is the term for repetition of a vowel sound through a series of words (not just at the beginning)
What is assonance
300
How many coordinating conjunctions are there?
What is seven? (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So)
300
This term refers to the use of sentence structure
What is syntax
300
In this Chinua Achebe novel (which 50 cent later starred in a movie of the same title), Okonkwo battles the loss of his masculinity due to the new pressures of colonialism.
What is Things Fall Apart
300
This author got his name from a riverman’s phrase for water found to be two fathoms (12 feet, or 3.7 meters) deep.
Who is Mark Twain
300
This is the term used to describe an author's reference to another work, figure, historical event, etc.
What is allusion
400
List at least three ways to separate or join two Independent Clauses
What is a period, (, fanboys), semicolon, semicolon transition, a colon
400
This term refers to the unnecessary repetition of ideas
What is redundancy
400
This famous monster story was written by Mary Shelley after her husband and friends challenged each other to write the best horror story. It is also referred to as The Modern Prometheus
What is Frankenstein
400
This famous American poet rarely left her room and only published about a dozen of her 1800 poems in her lifetime
Who is Emily Dickinson
400
This is the term for a word that mimics the sound it is describing (spelling counts)
What is onomatopoeia
500
This punctuation mark can accompany parenthetical phrases (in addition to commas and parenthesis, of course)
What is a dash
500
What usually prompts an argument is "exigence," which is commonly referred to as this...
What is the rhetorical situation
500
Gabriel Marquez, author of 100 Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, was from which Latin American country?
What is Columbia
500
This Oak Park native drove ambulances in World War I and survived two plane crashes.
Who is Ernest Hemingway
500
This poetic device describes running over a sentence or phrase from one line to the next