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Wild Card
100
Elliptical Construction
What is a sentence containing a deliberate omission of words
100
Exegesis
What is
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100
Fable
What is The Ant and The Grasshopper
100
First Person Narrative
What is A narrative told by a character involved in the story, using first person pronouns
200
Empathy
What is accent
200
Enjambment
What is the use of successive lines with no punctuation or pause between them
200
Expose
What is
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200
Falling Action
What is the scene in Harry Potter and the Sourcer's Stone when Harry talks to Dumbledore in the infirmary
200
Flash Back
What is "There was a time when Harry loved June with great passion..."
300
end-stopped
What is a pause
300
Euphony
What is Pleasing, harmonious sounds
300
Exposition
What is
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300
Fantasy
What is Harry Potter
300
Maxim
What is a saying or proverb expressing common wisdom or truth
400
Epithet
What is abuse
400
Eponymous
What is the title character of a work of literature
400
Explication
What is
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400
Farce
What is a bank robber accidently roaming into a police station to hide
400
Melodrama
What is A literary form in which events are exaggerated in order to create an extreme emotional response
500
Epic Epigram
What is ballad
500
Euphemism
What is A mild or less negative usage for harsh or blunt term
500
Extended Metaphor
What is
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500
Figure of Speech
What is metaphor
500
Metaphor
What is Rachel was a hog for taking all the pizza
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