Prepositions &
Prep Phrases
Prep Phrases
Types of
Punctuation
Punctuation
Figurative
Language
Language
Literary
Terms
Terms
Poetry
Terms
Terms
100
The PREPOSITION: The film was made in Spain.
What is IN?
100
The names of the 2 different types of DASHES. (Hint: They are each the length of a different letter.)
What are EM DASH and EN DASH?
100
"But still, like dust, I'll rise."
What is a SIMILE?
100
This causes the reader to feel uncertainty or anxiety while reading a text.
What is a SUSPENSE?
100
The repetition of the initial consonant sound in words close together.
What is ALLITERATION?
200
The 2 PREPOSITIONS: Hundreds of species vanished from the earth.
What is OF and FROM?
200
This punctuation is used to indicate words are missing in a quote or to indicate a pause hesitation
Ellipses (...)
200
"I would wait an eternity for your love."
What is a HYPERBOLE?
200
The underlying message or lesson in a work if literature.
What is the THEME?
200
This occurs when there is a pattern of end rhymes in a poem.
What is RHYME SCHEME?
300
OBJECT of the preposition ON: The scout troop went on a hike.
What is HIKE?
300
This type of punctuation is used to join compound words or numbers. (Ex: self-esteem or twenty-two)
What is a HYPHEN?
300
"It is the east and Juliet is the sun."
What is a METAPHOR?
300
A reference to to a well-known person, thing, event, or work of art/literature.
What is an ALLUSION?
300
This occurs when there is not a consistent rhyming pattern in a poem.
What is FREE VERSE?
400
Prepositional PHRASE: The plane circle above the runway.
What is ABOVE THE RUNWAY?
400
This type of punctuation can be used to join independent clauses that are closely related in meaning.
What is a SEMICOLON?
400
"They were flat round wafers, slightly browned on the edges and butter-yellow in the center."
What is IMAGERY?
400
Hints or clues to suggest what may happen later in the plot.
What is FORESHADOWING?
400
A series of consecutive lines grouped together in a poem.
What is a STANZA?
500
ADJ or ADV prep phrase: The plane circled ABOVE THE RUNWAY.
What is ADV? (modifies the verb circled)
500
This type of punctuation is used before a list of items, between the hour and minute in time, after salutation of a business letter, between a book title and subtitle or chapter and verse
What is a COLON?
500
"The dark sky was filled with angry, swirling clouds."
What is PERSONIFICATION?
500
These are the 3 types of irony.
What are SITUATIONAL, VERBAL, AND DRAMATIC IRONY?
500
This occurs when 2 (a couple) consecutive lines of poetry rhyme and have the same meter.
What is a COUPLET?