What is a literary genre based on imagination and not necessarily on fact.
100
Context
What is the words that appear before and after the word.
100
Thesis, or Main Idea
What is the primary message of a piece of writing.
100
Coordinating conjunction
What is a word used to join two independent clauses.
100
Diction
What is the word choices a writer makes.
200
Poetry
What is a literary genre that may encompass a variety of metered or rhythmically measured lines and is intended to evoke an emotional experience in the reader.
200
Mass media
What is all means of advertising to make us buy products.
200
Compare and Contrast
What is a strategy for looking at the various aspects of two or more ideas or topics.
200
Pronouns in the subject case
What is a word such as "she", "he", "I", "we" used in place of a noun which performs the action of a sentence.
200
Antebellum period
What is the time before the Civil War in America.
300
Drama
What is a literary genre intended to be performed by actors on a stage.
300
Pathos
What is an argument playing on the emotions of the audience.
300
Chronological Order
What is an organizational strategy that addresses events in the order they occur.
300
Prepositional phrase
What is a group of words containing a word such as "between", "next to", "from", which tells something about the verb in the sentence.
300
Flashback
What is when the storyline shifts to the past to give readers important information to help them understand the story better.
400
Nonfiction
What is a literary genre based on fact.
400
logos
What is an argument that appeals to the rational thoughts of the audience.
400
Paraphrasing
What is taking information your read and rewriting it in your own words.
400
Predicate
What is the part of the sentence which contains the verb.
400
Symbolism
What is something the stands for something else.
500
Foreshadowing
What is a literary device by which the author gives hints of what is to come in the future.
500
Ethos
What is an argument which relies on statements from authority figures, experts, or professionals to convince you of something.
500
Bibliography
What is a list of all the works you consulted during research on a topic.
500
Pronouns in the objective case
What is words such as "him", "us", "me", "them", taking the place of the noun which receives the action of the verb.
500
Figurative Language
What is figures of speech used to convey meaning that goes beyond the literal meaning of the words.