General Terms
Figurative Language
Text Structure
Comprehension
Persuasive Text
100
the people, animals, or imaginary creatures in a story
What is character?
100
comparison of two things that have some quality in common that uses like or as
What is a simile?
100
how two ideas in the passage are similar or different
What is compare/contrast?
100
the time and place of the action
What is setting?
100
a candidate, side, or movement that attracts increasing support
What is bandwagon?
200
most important people, animals, or imaginary creatures in a story
What is major character?
200
use of words whose sound suggests their meaning
What is onomatopoeia?
200
the act or process to transmit a mental image or impression with words
What is description?
200
the point of maximum interest in a story or play
What is climax?
200
important person or famous figure endorses a product
What is testimonials?
300
less important people, animals, or imaginary creatures in a story
What is minor character?
300
giving human qualities to an animal, object, or idea
What is personification?
300
a following of one thing after another
What is sequence?
300
most important idea that a writer wishes to express
What is main idea?
300
expresses a consensus of opinion with expressive terms
What is glittering generalities?
400
one that opposes another especially in combat
What is antagonist?
400
over exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
400
two events are related if one brings about the other
What is cause/effect?
400
when a writer provides hints that suggest future events in a story
What is foreshadowing?
400
ideas of a particular group promoted in public; often biased
What is propaganda?
500
main character in the story who suffers conflicts from the antagonist
What is protagonist?
500
an expression that has meaning different from the meaning of its individual words
What is idiom?
500
the exposition introduces the characters and main conflict;the climax builds; and final stage is resolution
What is problem/solution?
500
interruption of the action to present a scene that took place at an earlier time
What is flashback?
500
an attitude that always favors one way of feeling or acting over any other; prejudice
What is bias?
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