Definitions
Time and place of the action
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What is Setting?
Peace, Harmony, Agreement, and Accord are antonyms of this word
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What is Conflict?
This type of figurative language compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"
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What is a Simile?
This point of view, often used in autobiographies, uses personal pronouns like "I", "me", and "my" to tell the story.
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What is First Person?
When providing a short answer response on the EOC, what do the R and C stand for in the RACE strategy?
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What are Restate the question and Cite evidence?
To look at something closely and carefully, break it into parts, and explain how those parts work together to create meaning
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What is Analyze?
Paradox, Incongruity, Sarcasm, Satire, and Absurdity are all synonyms of this word
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What is Irony?
This type of figurative language makes an extreme exaggeration to make a point, such as "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse"
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What is a Hyperbole?
Often used in instructional writing or second-person fiction (like "Choose Your Own Adventure" books), this point of view directly addresses the reader as "you".
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What is Second Person?
What is the term for the main message, lesson, or underlying idea about life that an author conveys through a story?
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What is Theme?
The persuasive appeal to logic and reason, persuading an audience through facts, statistics, evidence, and clear reasoning, rather than relying on emoition
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What is Logos?
Secondary, minor, peripheral information are antonyms of this word
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What is Central Idea?
When a non-human thing, like the wind, the sun, or a chair is given human-like qualities, it is known as this
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What is Personification?
This type of narrator is "outside" the story, but limits their perspective to the thoughts and feelings of only one character.
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What is Third Person Limited?
In an informational text, if an author compares two different types of government to explain the benefits of one over the other, what is the primary text structure used?
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What is Compare/Contrast?
An unbiased overview of a text or piece of information. focusing solely on the facts and key points without any personal opinions or interruptions
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What is an Objective Summary?
Literalism, Reality, Fact, Directness, Nonfiction are all antonyms of this word
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What is Symbolism?
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" is a classic example of this, which repeats the same beginning sound
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What is Alliteration?
This type of narrator acts like a reporter, describing action and dialogue without revealing any character's internal thoughts or feelings.
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What is Third Person Objective?
What is the term for a question asked for effect, requiring no answer, often used to make a point in a persuasive argument?
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What is a Rhetorical Question?
The arrangement of words and pharses to create well-formed sentences in a language
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What is Syntax?
Amplification, Development, Expansion, and Clarification are all synonyms of this word
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What is Elaboration?
This type of figurative language consists of two contradictory words placed side-by-side, such as "jumbo shrimp" or "deafening silence"
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What is an Oxymoron?
Often found in epic poetry or Victorian novels, this specific third-person narrator doesn't just know everything; they frequently break the "fourth wall" to offer personal opinions or moral judgments on the characters.
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What is Third Person Omnipotent?
"Getting your driver's license is like a bird learning to fly. It's an adventure; you feel independent and free." This is an example of which rhetorical device?
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What is an Analogy?