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100
Metaphor
What is a comparison of two unlike things without using like or as?
100
Inverted Syntax
What is a reversal in the expected order of words?
100
Sermon
What is a form of religious persuasion in which a speaker exhorts the audience to behave in a more spiritual and moral fashion?
100
Claim
What is the writer's position on an issue or problem?
100
Climax
What is the turning point (when the reader's interest reaches a peak) in a plot structure?
200
Mood
What is the feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for his reader?
200
Foreshadow
What is it when a writer uses hints or clues to indicate events that will occur in a story?
200
Primary Source
What are materials written or created by people who were present at events, either as participants or as observers?
200
Counterargument
What is the opposition to an argument?
200
Exposition
What is the part of a plot structure that introduces the characters, describes the setting, and introduces the initial conflict?
300
Allegory
What is a work with two levels of meaning, a literal one and a symbolic one (a symbolic metaphor)?
300
Theme
What is an underlying message that a writer wants the reader to understand?
300
Rhythm
What is the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem (the beat)?
300
Appeals to Authority
What is an appeal that calls upon experts or others to warrant respect?
300
Imperative
What is a type of sentence which gives a command, request, or direction and can end with a period or an exclamation point?
400
Aphorism
What is a short, brief witty saying?
400
Imagery
What are the descriptive words or phrases that a writer uses to re-create sensory experiences?
400
Slant Rhymeeee
What is rhyme that is not exact but only approximate?
400
Antithesis
What is a device in which contrasting ideas are expressed in grammatically balanced statements?
400
Complex Sentence
What is a sentence pattern that has one main clause and one or more subordinate clauses?
500
Anecdote
What is a brief story that focuses on a single episode or event in a person's life and that is used to illustrate a certain point?
500
Speaker/Narrator
What is the voice that talks to the reader?
500
Symbol?
What is a person, place, or object that has a concrete meaning in itself and also represents something beyond itself?
500
Deductive reasoning
What is an argument developed from generalization to specifics?
500
Compound-Complex Sentence
What is a sentence pattern that has two or more independent clauses and one or more subordinate clauses?
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