What is "exposition?"
Beginning element of plot where everything/everyone is introduced
A character finds a solution for whatever happened in the climax.
What term is that?
What is Characterization?
The creation or constraction of a fictional character
"The Chromebook Craze" -Article about Chromebooks.
What is this?
A headline
What is a "conjunction?"
Words that connect sentences.
Example: and, but, or
A word's dictionary meaning.
Example: Lake- an island of water
Denotation
What is "appendix?"
a section or table of additional matter at the end of a book or document.
"The old woman and the snake" is an example of what?
Parable
A short story designed to illustrate or teach some truth or moral lesson
What is "suspense?"
A state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen
Example: "Back to the future" Will Marty go back?
Newspaper article written by or on behalf of an editor.
What word is this?
Editorial
Article on uniforms. Gives opinion
What is a fragment?
Example: After chromebook check in
Fails to be a sentence because it cannot stand alone.
Seemingly absurd or contradictory statement
Example: Trust me
Paradox
Rules for grammatical sentence or how punctuation makes sense
What word?
Syntax
Example: The boy jumped happily/The boy happily jumped
What is a "footnote?"
Example: definitions
An explanatory note or comment at the bottom of a page
What is an example of a "cliché?"
A phrase or opinion that is repetitive and lacks originality
An apple a day keeps the doctor away
Iambic Pentameter. An example is Present or Present
What is the definition?A common meter in poetry unrhymed with five feet of accents
What is "antithesis?"
"opposite." opposite ideas put together for contrasting effect
Example: setting foot on the moon
What is an example of "scansion?"
process of analyzing a poem's meter
finding/counting stresses
What is Colloquialism?
Use of ordinary or familiar words or phrases
Example: style, expression
What is the definition of "ellipsis?"
Example: If only she had...
a set of dots representing an omission of speech or writing
"I am putting the finishing touches on my project" is an example of?
Participail
Words having characteristics of verbs and adjectives
What is an example of a parody?
Parody: an imitation of a particular writer, artist, etc with an exaggeration for comic effect.
Spaceballs in place of Starwars
What is a rhetorical question?
a question you are suprised by and don't except to answer
Refers to chapters in the text
Stave
What is "tragedy?"
Example: Stubbing a toe
an event causing great pain