Vocabulary
Writing
Revising
Literary Terms
Romeo and Juliet
100
An adjective for horrible conditions.
What is deplorable?
100
Controlling thesis, explanation of opinion, personal support
What are the traits in Expository writing?
100
Type of Error in the following sentence: The dogs rope was chewed through.
What is a missing apostrophe?
100
Comparing two things using like or as
What is a simile?
100
When the audience knows something the characters do not know.
What is dramatic irony?
200
She always sat _______ from the other freshmen at lunch.
What is aloof?
200
A story about your personal life or a made up story
What is a narrative?
200
Type of Error in the following sentence: The dog’s rope was chewed threw.
What is a common spelling mistake?
200
All five senses in a reading passage
What is imagery?
200
A character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight qualities of the other character.
What is a character foil?
300
Picking on someone and making them feel terrible and alone is an example of this
What is ostracize?
300
A statement about the topic with the author's opinion included.
What is a thesis?
300
Type of Error in the following sentence: It was chewed we had to buy another.
What is a run on sentence?
300
The unexpected happening
What is irony?
300
"Juliet. O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name! Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I’ll no longer be a Capulet." These lines show the initial_______.
What is conflict?
400
Jack didn't think through the problem. He used conjecture to come up with the answer.
What is a guess formed without much evidence?
400
Anecdote, news story, media connections.
What are types of personal support?
400
Type of Error in the following sentence: The dog’s rope was chewed through, we had to buy another.
What is a comma splice?
400
The feeling of a word versus the literal definition of a word.
What is connotation and denotation.
400
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What is the sonnet rhyme scheme?
500
The definition of ambivalence.
What are mixed feelings and emotions?
500
Take us there, Show us who, Shock us, Let us hear
What are types of great leads?
500
A sentence with at least two dependent clauses and one independent clause.
What is a compound complex sentence?
500
The author's feelings about the subject of the passage.
What is tone?
500
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called... What is this passage saying?
A name is just a name. It doesn't make the personality.
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