Grammar
The perspective from which a story is told is called what?
Point of View
When something happens that is very different to what was expected.
Irony
Latin root meaning "light."
Lum
A prefix meaning “not.” Attached to words to make them negative.
Un-/Im-
A thing regarded as something else. A direct comparison being made that does not use the words “like” or “as.”
Metaphor
A sentence that connects two independent clauses using a conjunction.
Compound sentence
The attitude of a writer toward a subject or audience conveyed through word choice and the style of writing.
Tone
Latin root meaning "to look."
Spec
A suffix meaning a quality of- or state of being.
-some
A literary device using visually descriptive language to create vivid descriptions and images in the mind of the reader.
Imagery
A sentence connecting an independent and dependent clause. They use propositions and still make sense when reversed.
Complex sentence
A rhetorical technique that appeals to the reader's sense of logic and reasoning.
Logos
Latin root meaning "hand."
Man
Makes nouns into adjectives meaning “full of.”
-ous
An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it directly. It is an indirect or passive reference.
Allusion
Using ideas and facts, not word-for-word quotes, from an original source and using them as a source of evidence in an essay.
Indirect quotation
A noun phrase following another noun or phrase that further identifies a noun. It provides a positive identity of the previous noun.
Appositive Phrase
Latin root meaning "one" or "once."
Sim
Used to make verbs into nouns. It expresses an action, state of being, or associated meanings.
-tion
A style of writing that uses images or symbols to represent bigger ideas.
Symbolism
A punctuation mark used to signal that what comes next in the sentence is directly related to the previous sentence.
Colon
A phrase that contains a participle, modifier, and pronoun or noun phrase, and is used to describe a noun or object.
Participial Phrase
Latin root meaning “mind,” or “memory.”
Mem
Used to make nouns that denote places or things.
-ory
A phrase established by having a meaning that is incomprehensible from the actual words being said. The phrase taken literally doesn’t make any sense, but the figurative meaning does.
Idiom