This literary device is used to draw a comparison using like or as.
What is A SIMILE?
100
This period focuses on alienation, cities, the emptiness of the American Dream, race, and class. It also includes the Harlem Renaissance and the Roaring Twenties (also known as the Jazz Age).
What is MODERNISM or TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE?
100
This is the function of the C in a typical A-E-C paragraph.
What is commentary, or the writer's effort to EXPLAIN how his or her evidence proves the thesis statement of the whole essay?
100
These two prefixes mean good and bad.
What is ben- and mal-
200
This punctuation mark is used to separate two independent clauses. It functions like a period or a comma with a FANBOYS
What is a semi-colon?
200
An author makes a REFERENCE to another thing
What is An ALLUSION?
200
This period in American literature is characterized by a focus on nature, on solitude, and on emotion.
What is Romanticism?
200
This type of information resource would tell you about the amount of precipitation that fell between the years of 1889 and 1890.
What is an almanac?
200
This words means bound to happen or unavoidable.
What is inevitable?
300
This punctuation mark is used commonly to separate items in a list and to signal to the reader to pause.
What is THE COMMA!
300
You can often discover this literary element by looking at the title, the first sentence, the last sentence, or repeated key words in a passage.
What is main idea?
300
This period in American literature is characterized by direct treatment of the truth, an emphasis of characterization over plot, and a focus on social ills.
What is Realism? (Also known as Nationalism).
300
This is the problem with the following sentence: He suffered from tuberculosis, he died from the disease at the age of twenty-nine.
WHAT is the COMMA. Also acceptable: WHAT IS A RUN-ON SENTENCE?
300
This word means informal speech and/or used in ordinary speech.
What is colloquial?
400
A pair of this punctuation mark is used to set off a comment in a sentence. It is also used to mean "in other words" when placed at the end of the sentence.
What is THE DASH?
400
Jonathan Edwards appealed to this in his famous fire and brimstone sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
What is an appeal to fear?
400
This period focuses on extremely religious themes, uses fear to motivate audiences, and was very serious and plain.
What is Puritan literature? (Also known as Colonial Literature)
400
This is where you would find what resources an author used in writing his or her book, story, novel, essay?
What is a BIBLIOGRAPHY or WORKS-CITED PAGE?
400
This means something that you can PROVE.
What is a fact?
500
This is used to separate two clauses; one of these two clauses is an independent clause, and the other is a dependent clause.
What is a COMMA?
500
This is used by authors to convey the opposite of what's expected.
What is IRONY?
500
This refers to the modern period in literary history characterized by a flowering of African American art and literature in the 20th century in New York.