Literary Terms
This is the use of symbols to represent ideas
Symbolism
This is the last part of the writing process
Publishing/final draft
This punctuation is used to separate items in a simple list.
Comma
This character is Thane of Glamis, then Thane of Cawdor, and lastly King of Scotland.
Macbeth
This is the central thought or idea in a text.
Main idea
This is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
Alliteration
Brainstorming goes into this part of the writing process
Prewriting
This is a grammatically faulty sentence in which two or more independent clauses are joined without a word to connect them or a punctuation mark to separate them: “The fog was thick he could not find his way home.
Run on sentence
There are ____ witches in Macbeth.
Three
An essay should always include this guiding sentence in its introduction.
Thesis statement
This is visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work
Imagery
This part of the writing process is where the writer alters or changes part of the content of his/her writing.
Revision
When a person writes a sentence with only a dependent clause, it's not truly a complete sentence but instead this.
Sentence fragment
Macbeth's fatal flaw is having too much of this
Ambition
This is the feeling or attitude associated with a word.
Connotation
"Her hair was the color of the sun," is an example of this term.
Metaphor
There are ____ stages in the writing process
5
This piece of punctuation is used to connect two closely related independent clauses or separate complicated items in a list
Semicolon
At the end of play, in the last act, these two main characters are dead.
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
Using a celebrity to endorse a product is using this type of rhetorical strategy.
Ethos
Tone is the attitude of the speaker in a work while __________ evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions.
Mood
This term is often used interchangeably with revision, but actually means to correct conventional mistakes
Editing
"I like science now, it's not just about studying fungi with teachers in white coats."
What is the correct way to edit this sentence (if needed)?
I like science now; it's not just about studying fungi with teachers in white coats
In Act IV, the witches' apparitions tell Macbeth to fear this person who eventually slays him.
Macduff
Name the three types ironies.
Situational, verbal, and dramatic