adverbs or adjectives plus the noun they are modifying (The movie star is in the last white limousine.)
What is noun phrase?
100
work that does not clearly belong in one genre or another (prose poems or historical fiction)
What is blurring of genres?
100
the overall ease a person has understanding and reading a work
What is readability?
100
an argument used in opposition to an originally presented argument
What is counterargument?
100
ideas or rumors spread to help or hurt a specific person or cause
What is propaganda?
200
two or more adjectives that work together to modify a noun (a fifteen-minute presentation)
What is a compound adjective?
200
the broad term used to describe how an author makes his or her characters feel like real people
What is characterization?
200
the process of improving a rough draft to create a polished final draft
What is redrafting?
200
a persuasive technique designed to make consumers feel like everyone is using the advertised product (a sneaker commercial intended to entice young people by featuring a basketball court full of teenagers wearing the shoes and having a good time)
What is bandwagon?
200
any formal mode of communication or expression through which large numbers of people can be reached
What is medium?
300
a noun that appears in singular form but is plural in meaning (The crowd was restless.)
What is a collective noun?
300
the literary movement that took place in the early nineteenth century and was defined by writers such as Wordsworth and Coleridge
What is the romantic period?
300
a contextual error in logic that renders an argument invalid
What is a logical fallacy?
300
a sentence at the end of a paragraph or paper intended to leave the reader with a powerful impression
What is clincher sentence?
300
a law that prevents the reproduction or use of an author's original work without permission
What is copyright law?
400
a pronoun used without an antecedent to ask a question (Whose house are we visiting?)
What is an interrogative pronoun?
400
the thoughts of a character in a book or play that are not said aloud
What is interior monologue?
400
the use of more words than necessary to complete a thought or make a point
What is circumlocution?
400
a persuasive technique characterized by its focus on reason or fact (a public service announcement that warns against drunk driving by stating statistics about how many people died in drunk-driving accidents the previous year)
What is appeal to logic?
400
the principle that advertising should not be intentionally misleading
What is truth in advertising?
500
a punctuation mark used informally to set off parenthetical statements (All four cats--Wiggles, Beatrice, Dr. Detroit, and Moose--had to go to the vet at the same time.)
What is a dash?
500
the person who is telling the story in a book or movie
What is a narrator?
500
the common style used in our research papers
What is Modern Language Association (MLA)?
500
a sentence in the introduction of an essay that clearly states the argument the essay with present
What is thesis statement?
500
an image that has been altered in order to sell a product or appeal to a specific audience