Literary Terms
Foreshadowing is one literary technique that authors use to build:
A. theme
B. suspense
C. conflict
What is B. suspense
An essay where you use logic and reason to show that your point of view is more legitimate than any other.
A. Narrative
B. Expository
C. Persuasive/Argumentative
What is C. Persuasive/Argumentative
Please go to the store and buy some eggs because they are on sale. What is the pronoun?
A. go
B. store
C. they
What is C. they
What type of figurative language is this? The table danced across the room during the earthquake.
What is personification
What age is Ms. Hernandez?
What is 47
The main struggle of the story is called the:
A. mood
B. theme
C. conflict
What is C. conflict
Saying "everyone is doing it" is what persuasive technique?
A. bandwagon
B. glittering generalities
C. beautiful people
What is A. bandwagon
Which word is misspelled? The cat is sleeping under a blanket because its cold.
What is its should be spelled it's
What type of figurative language is this? My binder is an overflowing sea of papers.
What is metaphor
In the movie "It," what color is Pennywise's balloon?
What is red
______ happens when someone says something other than what they mean.
A. Verbal Irony
B. Surprise
C. Suspense
What is A. Verbal Irony
What does an essay introduction need?
A. Ideas
B. Description
C. Hook
What is C. Hook
______ going to take the dog for a walk.
A. there
B. their
C. they're
What is C. they're
What type of figurative language is this? The CRACK of the whip scared the lion.
What is onomatopoeia
In which city is the Empire State Building located?
What is New York city
A. description
B. characterization
C. setting
What is B. characterization
What is the purpose of the conclusion of an essay?
A. to introduce new ideas
B. to provide more explanation of key ideas
C. to summarize the main points and make the reader think
What is C. to summarize the main points and make the reader think
Turn the sentence from passive into active voice: The hole was dug by the dog.
What is The dog dug a hole.
What type of figurative language is this:
Those lazy lizards are lying like lumps in the leaves.
What is alliteration
What is (names)
Appealing to someone's emotions is which type of Aristotle's Rhetoric?
A. Ethos
B. Pathos
C. Logos
What is B. Pathos
In MLA format, do you have to include parenthetical citations even when you paraphrase?
A. Yes
B. No
What is A. Yes
Is this sentence written correctly? I do not want to go to the store today, nor do I want to go tomorrow.
What is YES
What type of figurative language uses EXTREME exaggeration?
What is hyperbole
What is Wall-E's girlfriend's name?
What is Eve