Grammar
This type of punctuation can be used to add additional information, to show hesitation in speech, or to create suspense.
Dash
The wind whispered softly through the trees.
Personification
This word means to make something grow stronger or more intense.
Intensify
This is the part of the story where the main problem or conflict is introduced.
Exposition
This is the method an author uses when writing details about a character either directly or indirectly.
Characterization
The person or thing performing the action is often introduced with the preposition "by".
Passive Voice
I am going to have to rake a million leaves in my backyard this Fall.
Hyperbole
"She had the ___ to speak up boldly when no one else would."
Audacity
When an author provides details about a story's setting and causes the mood to shift and it creates tension.
Suspense
When the narrator of the story is not a character but informs readers of the thoughts, feelings, and emotions of just one character.
Third-Person-Limited Point-of-View
The main subject/noun in the sentence "The crisp wind shakes the colorful leaves from the trees," is...
Wind
Time is a thief that steals our moments.
Metaphor
This word means to smother or hold back something, like laughter or emotion.
Stifle
In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the narrator says that he hears the "ticking of a watch enveloped in cotton".
What does this symbolize?
Guilt
Because the pumpkins were planted in the spring and received plenty of sunlight and water, they grew large and orange. As a result, they were carved into jack-o’-lanterns for Halloween.
Cause & Effect
This type of sentence contains one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
Example:
Because the leaves were falling, the children played happily outside.
Complex Sentence
This device references a well-known person, place, event, or work of literature.
Allusion
She felt deep _________ after hearing the sad news about her friend’s accident.
Anguish
In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the narrator begins by insisting he is not mad, then retells the events leading up to the murder. This storytelling technique, which interrupts the present to reveal past events, helps build suspense and reveal motive.
Flashback
Identify the text structure in the following excerpt:
Both “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving explore how fear can control the mind and shape a person’s fate. In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the narrator’s fear of the old man’s “vulture eye” grows into guilt and madness, driving him to confess his crime. In contrast, Ichabod Crane’s fear in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” comes from superstition and imagination, causing him to flee from what he believes is a ghost. While Poe’s story shows how inner fear and guilt destroy from within, Irving’s tale reveals how belief in external fears can distort reality. Both stories suggest that fear—whether real or imagined—has the power to overcome reason.
Compare & Contrast
Rephrase the example to be in passive voice-
"Ghosts whispered eerie sounds throughout the abandoned mansion."
Throughout the abandoned mansion eerie sounds were whispered by ghosts.
The haunted house groaned, a tired giant, its windows glaring with eyes full of ancient secrets.
You need two answers recorded for this example.
Metaphor & Personification
In a forceful, passionate, or intense manner
Vehemently
In both "The Tell Tale Heart" & "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" the stories are driven by one force/element that control the characters.
What is that force/element?
Fear
Identify the text structure in the following excerpt:
“It is true, an old farmer, who had been down to New York on a visit several years after, and from whom this account of the ghostly adventure was received, brought home the intelligence that Ichabod Crane was still alive; that he had left the neighborhood partly through fear of the goblin and partly in mortification at having been suddenly dismissed by the heiress; that he had changed his quarters to a distant part of the country, and kept school, and turned politician. But the old country wives, however, who are the best judges of these matters, maintain to this day that he was spirited away by supernatural means; and it is a favorite story often told about the neighborhood round the winter evening fire.”
Narrative