Writing
This type of essay requires an explanation of a topic without providing your opinion.
What is an informational essay?
This part of speech usually ends in -ly.
What is an adverb?
What is figurative language?
This is the overall message the author teaches the audience.
What is a theme?
This reveals how the author feels about their subject based on their word choice.
What is tone?
"I had to shut the door to the passage. They've taken over the back part."
This type of essay has you tell a story, either fictional or true, based on a specific topic.
What is a narrative essay?
These conjunctions join two independent clauses with a comma.
What are FANBOYS? (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So)
I went to the bank, but I forgot my wallet.
This is the repetition of the same sound in a word for emphasis.
What is alliteration?
"Hungry all the time, walking to work on payday
Like a woman journeying for water
From a village without a well..."
This type of device attributes human characteristics to non-human objects.
What is personification?
The clouds wept heavy tears at the game.
This is the atmosphere that the readers feel towards a passage.
"During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens..."
This type of essay requires you to pick a side of a topic and convince your audience of your belief.
What is an argumentative essay?
These words join two independent clauses with a semicolon and a comma.
What are conjunctive adverbs (however, therefore, furthermore, etc.)?
I got my paycheck today; however, I have bills to pay.
This type of situation contradicts the expectations of both the characters in the story and the readers/audience.
What is situational irony?
"Oh, my poor, poor Mathilde! My necklace was false. It was worth five hundred francs at the most!"
This is the feeling of a word beyond its definition: positive, negative, or neutral.
What is connotation?
Fragrance, Stench, Scent
This device contrasts two things to emphasize their different positions.
What is juxtaposition?
"At six, she chewed off
The seven porcelain buttons...
Now, twenty-six,
She counts eight engagement rings"
This type of claim shows an understanding of the opposite side of the argument.
What is a counterclaim?
This part of speech specifies where, when, or how actions take place, like (on the box).
What is a preposition(al phrase)?
In this event, the reader/audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not.
What is dramatic irony?
Teiresias: You are the killer...
Oedipus: Hold your slanderous tongue!
This point of view uses pronouns like I or we.
What is a first-person point of view?
This device refers to all types of comparisons like similes and metaphors.
What is an analogy?
This is another word for disproving the opposing argument and restating your claim.
What is a rebuttal?
This structure repeats the same type of grammatical phrase for emphasis.
What is parallel structure?
I have to clean my room, walk my dog, and finish my homework.
This type of story uses symbols to hint at a deeper meaning behind the literal story.
What is an allegory?
"One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous, verminous bug."
This point of view uses pronouns like he, she, or they, and provides the thoughts of all characters.
What is third-person omniscient point of view?
This device is a type of phrase unique to a language that does not have a literal meaning.
What is an idiom?
When asked to coach the soccer team, the teacher declined, saying he had too much on his plate already.