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Complex, Fragment, or Run-On?
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Miscellaneous
100
The use of prior knowledge to anticipate what is coming in the text.
What is a prediction?
100
A directly stated comparison where no words of comparison are used.
What is a metaphor?
100
Using chopsticks to eat.
What is a fragment?
100
The use of language to create a vivid sensory image.
What is imagery?
100
The central idea or message in a piece of writing. The lesson about life the author wants you to learn.
What is the theme?
200
Combining what you already know with what an author tells you to form a prediction or make a judgment.
What is an inference?
200
Words in which the sound implies the meaning.
What are onomatopoeias?
200
The soldiers were tired they had marched all day.
What is run-on?
200
Scenes or characters that stretch the truth.
What is exaggeration?
200
The hero of the story.
What is the protagonist?
300
The relationship between events and their results.
What is cause and effect?
300
Contradictory words which are brought together for impact.
What is an oxymoron?
300
The boys had no ticket stubs, they were asked to leave.
What is run-on?
300
The use of a metaphor, simile, idiom hyperbole, or personification to create a particular mood or impression.
What is figurative language?
300
The struggle between a character and an outside force.
What is external conflict?
400
To find and restate the main points and important details in a text without including your own opinion.
What is summarize?
400
A person, place, or thing that represents something else.
What is symbolism?
400
After they finished studying, Juan and Maria went to the movies.
What is complex?
400
An interruption in the chronological order by shifting back in time to give the reader additional information.
What is flashback?
400
A story someone writes about his/her own life.
What is an autobiography?
500
The position from which the writer is communicating the message.
What is author's point of view?
500
Expressions in which the literal definition of the words is not the intended meaning.
What are idioms?
500
A mysterious black limousine with smoked windows.
What is fragment?
500
A broad statement based on evidence that is true most, but not necessarily all of the time.
What is a generalization?
500
The character who works against the protagonist.
What is an antagonist?
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