punctuation
This mark is used to connect two independent clauses not joined by a coordinating conjunction.
What is a semicolon?
A sentence with two independent clauses that have not been joined correctly.
What is a run-on sentence?
A sentence that spills over from one line to the next in a poem.
What is enjambment?
This author wrote a long poem about a bus accident on a visit to Morocco.
Who is Charif Shanahan
A verb form ending in -ing used as a noun.
What is gerund?
You use this mark before a coordinating conjunction joining independent clauses.
What is a comma?
In this type of sentence, the subject receives the action instead of doing it.
What is passive voice?
This form of a poem repeats the second and fourth lines as the first and third lines of the next stanza.
What is a pantoum?
This author used a writing technique that only suggested what was beneath the surface, which he called "the iceberg theory."
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
This type of poetic form has 31 syllables.
What is a tanka?
Never use this mark between compound elements that are not independent clauses
What is a comma?
This form of the verb is used for collective nouns such as audience.
What is singular?
The expression of one's meaning that normally signifies the opposite.
What is irony?
In this short story by Denis Johnson, two orderlies in a hospital enter a drug-induced alternate reality.
What is "Emergency"?
Charles Baxter's theory of making the ordinary seem strange.
What is defamiliarization?
You punctuate the title of a poem in this way.
What is quotation marks?
What is an independent clause?
You use this literary device when you want to make a closer, more direct comparison between two things.
What is a metaphor?
This poet gave up their job and students to live as a beggar, traveling across the country on foot, writing about their experiences.
Who is Bashō?
What is "unity in opposites"?
What is brackets?
A word or phrase that fails to refer logically to any word in the sentence.
What is a dangling modifier?
This term describes creative writing about visual art.
What is ekphrasis?
This writer visited our class to teach us about playwriting.
Who is Rolano André Lopez?
This is what you want to create when you write a caption to an image that is not literal.
What is "a third thing"?