GRAMMAR
SHAKESPEARE
Figurative Language
RHETORICAL DEVICES
RANDOMNESS
100
What type of sentence has two independent clause and one dependent clause?
Compound Complex Sentence
100
What is a tragic flaw?
A flaw that leads to the downfall of the tragic hero.
100
Provide an example of an idiom.
It is raining cats and dogs.
100
Questions that are not intended to be answered instead they are used to make the reader think
Rhetorical Question
100
What are two types of affixes?
Prefixes and affixes
200
What is the purpose of a noun phrase?
They serve as nouns in the sentence.
200
What is the rhyme scheme in a Shakespearean sonnet?
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
200
Provide an example of personification
My smile was singing to my wife.
200
He was no Scrooge, but he hated spending money. Is a type of what rhetorical device?
Allusion
200
What is the difference between a dynamic and static character?
A dynamic character experiences some type of change through the course of the text.
300
Which of the following words is spelled incorrectly?
A. Demeen B. Temerity C. Despicable D. Catastrophe
300
What is the difference between a soliloquy and a monologue?
There is no difference a soliloquy is a type of monologue.
300
Why do authors use figurative language?
To engage their audience and make their writing more creative
300
What are the three types of rhetoric? What does each type use to persuade its reader?
Ethos: Credibility of others Pathos: Emotions of the reader Logos: Facts and Stats
300
What type of characterization tell the reader exactly what the characters are like?
Direct characterization
400
Name six out of the eight parts of speech
Verbs, Adjectives, Nouns, Adverbs, Interjections, Articles, Conjunctions, Preposition
400
What is dramatic irony?
Irony when you know something that the character does not.
400
The use of words to express sounds is what?
Onomotopoeia
400
The use of the credibility of others to get your point across is what form of rhetoric?
Ethos
400
Isiah had the best vernacular of all his classmates. What does vernacular mean?
Vocabulary
500
How can you identify a direct object in a sentence?
It is what is being described or receiving the action in the sentence.
500
Provide an example of foil characters
Tybalt and Benvolio
500
The storm was coming dow as if it was raining cats and dogs is an example of what 3 forms of figurative language?
Idiom, hyperbole, and simile
500
What is the difference between restatement and repetition?
Repetition does not change the words it uses
500
What is the difference between a flat and round character?
A flat character is not developed by the author. The round character is said to have many more character traits than a flat character.
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