About the Author
Just the Facts
Sentence Structure
Signal Words
Literary Terms
100
the author's feeling about the work
What is tone?
100
free of emotion or opinion
What is objective?
100
a group of words that contains a subject and a verb
What is a clause
100
follow a comma to join independent clauses
What are coordinating conjunctions or FANBOYS?
100
extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
200
The author's selection of words in a work
What is diction?
200
dictionary definition
What is denotation?
200
contains two independent clauses
What is a compound sentence
200
All words used to join independent clauses
What are compound connectors?
200
repetition of beginning clauses
What is anaphora?
300
the perspective from which an author tells a story
What is point of view?
300
the analysis or evaluation of a literary work
What is criticism?
300
contain two independent clauses and two dependent clauses
What is a compound-complex sentence
300
Used to join dependent clauses to independent clauses
What are complex connectors?
300
addressing an absent person or inanimate object
What is apostrophe?
400
the most important piece of information the author wants you to know about a paragraph
What is the main idea?
400
used to join words, phrases, and clauses
What are conjunctions?
400
Contains only one main clause
What is a simple sentence?
400
Another name for an adverbial conjunction?
What is a conjunctive adverb or transition word?
400
using the negative to imply the positive
What is litotes?
500
the study of the author's selection of words and how they are used
What is diction analysis?
500
Can be action, linking, or state of being
What are verbs?
500
punctuation mark that can be used to join independent clauses
What is a semicolon?
500
The three types of complex connectors
What are subordinating conjunctions, relative pronouns, and noun clause introductory words?
500
understatement
What is meiosis?
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