Literary Terms
Poetry Terms
Short Story/Novel Terms
Drama Terms
Essay Terms
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What is an Adjective?
A word that describes a noun
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What is a poem with a song like form based on a legend or love story?
A Ballad
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What is a biography?
A record of the life of an individual other than the author. In other words, the story of a person's life
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What is a dialogue?
A conversation between multiple people.
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What is the main statement that describes the opinion?
thesis
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What is a Bibliography?
A list of sources which have been used while writing
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Give an example of a contrast...
Response varies as long as response contains similarities as well as differences
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What is the scene that occurs before the novel truly begins?
The porologue
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An object on a stage that is not considered "scenery" is a....
prop
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What is a narrative?
A piece of writing that tells a story.
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What is an example of an Oxymoron?
"Beautiful Tyrant" "Great Depression" "Jumbo Shrimp"
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What is an example of an assonance?
"Flash with a rash gimme my cash flickin' my ash Runnin with my money, son, go out with a blast." (Busta Rhymes, "Gimme Some More," 1998)
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What is the main area of interest in a piece of writing
A Focal Point.
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What is an example of a tragedy?
Romeo & Juliette, Hamlet, Macbeth, most of Shakespeare's novels.
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What is the first sentence in a paragraph?
The topic sentence
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What is a word meaning a rough copy or a sketch of a visual?
A Thumbnail Sketch
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Lyric Poems express...
intense emotions thoughts and moods.
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What is the difference between fictional and nonfictional writing?
Fictional is a piece of writing with imaginary events and nonfictional is based on true events.
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What is the difference between a scene and an act?
An act is a part or a chapter of a play and a scene is an episode within a play.
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When all the sentences and paragraphs support one idea it is called...
unity
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What is a Caption?
Words beneath a photo that basically explains whatever is happening in that photo.
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What is a choice of words?
A diction
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What is the type of ending "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" has? Keep in mind that this is the first Lord of the Rings movie and the conflict doesn't resolve until the final movie
A cliffhanger
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What is a Soliloquy?
A monologue that is meant to reflect a character's emotions.
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What is a piece of writing that describes how and why something occurs?
An Expository
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